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Whatever you
do regularly becomes natural. I can remember the day I decided to make my bed before leaving my house - the bed has never been left undone since, but the transition was painful. It seemed like I was moving a mountain at first, taking the forty of fifty seconds to make the bed. Since I had not been in the habit, there was an old habit to break and replace. Now, if I left the house knowing the bed was unmade, it would be disturbing to me, simply because the habit has been established. An unmade bed may not be the end of the world, but it is a picture of something. It represents choices in priorities and discipline. How much more important are the things that God has commanded us to do? Very! Yet, it is always amazing to find someone who will develop the habit of a devotional life because it comes at a price. That price? The old habits must be replaced. The thing that seems natural must be left, and the new habit must be taken up before it feels normal or routine. When you have met with the Lord each day for only a few weeks, it becomes natural. The enemy will never leave you totally alone - the phone will always ring, you will have diarrhea, or there will be some other equally interesting distraction. So, you find a place and a time that will not be interrupted. And your life is changed. Because of the glory resulting from your habit, the lives of those around you are changed too. It becomes natural - necessary - desirable. And soon, you cannot live without it. You are simply taking up for a few minutes each day, the thing you will be doing without interruption for all eternity. |
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