HABITS

We can override a habit by willpower for a moment or two.  Over the long run, our habits will always defeat our willpower.  Our only hope is not a stronger will; but rather a new set of habits. 

 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.  Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. Romans 6:12-13

What’s the solution for living according to righteous habits?  It’s found in the previous verse:  See yourselves as being dead to the power of sin and alive with God through Christ Jesus (Romans 6:11 NCV).

We must die to “self” but not to our “God-given self”.  We die to the “sinful self”.  But we die in hope.  And that is what leads to life with a new set of good habits.