Habits, From Mom

Ok, so I guess today is the day for a Mom Journal entry.  I thought Tuesday, but God had other plans. Here goes Mom's take on habits.

2 Corinthians 5:14-17  Either way, Christ's love controls us.   Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.  He died for everyone so that those who receive His new life will not longer live for themselves.  Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.  So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view.  At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view.  How differently we know Him now!  This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person.  The old life is gone; a new life has begun!.  

Can't get rid of it(whatever that habit may be) - then it has a mastery over you.  In a very real sense you are it's slave.  Recognize the problem in order to recover, identify, and understand your true position in Christ as a redeemed one.   With His blood you were literally redeemed or paid for, and the ownership of your life was transferred from sin and self to Almighty God.  Take hold of this powerful liberating statement.   It is unnecessary to live in bondage.

From me:

A very short, right on the money take on being enslaved to bad habits from Mom.  And a very real solution.  It starts in the mind. Knowing our position in Christ and knowing Who we belong to. Whatever we obey becomes our master.  For me, it's junk food and complaining.  I often feel like I will never break the chains of these taskmasters....yet I know in Christ there is release.  The problem is that I don't let go of my chains.  Even though I want to be free in my heart, my fleshly nature holds the chains in clenched fingers....hanging onto them as if I control them, as if I am the one in command.    And this could not be further from the truth.

Lord, I pray to live as Your Word tells me....a new person, my old life gone and Your life living in me.  Often it's easier to give into the old, comfortable habits and sins instead of taking a stand against them and walking in freedom.  The flesh is strong Lord.  But You give us victory.  Lord, I want the desire to run and chase after that victory, to walk in the redemption You give.

Identify and take a stand against a bad habit today.  Replace it with something healthy and new!!