The Devotional - There are habits and there is sin

The Devotional

Why would we have habits? A person is said to have a habit if they wear the same costume everyday like a clown or a nun in that the costume becomes the habit. Another form of habit is to do something repeatedly, it could become an irritation or object of concern if one pulled on his or her ear repeatedly or pulled on their nose. I once knew a person who pulled on their nose all of the time and it became long and pointed, nearly a half inch longer than normal. 

People who take drugs or smoke cigarettes and use alcohol are said to have a habit too. Now days we call their condition a disease. If we care to be truthful about drug and alcohol abuse we would call this SIN. Smoking is a drug, alcohol is a drug; also we have made legal prescription drugs. If you think about this as I do, we have made legal the very things we condemn since the same things are available illegally. For me this is the evidence of how we justify “good and evil”.

Comments and Challenges  

Psalm 119:137-144 – Today looking at the remaining two verses.

(143) – Trouble and anguish have overtaken (found) me, yet Your commandments are my delight. When we meditate with God about His Character and the holiness of His commandments the anguish of “good and evil” in our heart is put to rest. Anguish is stilled by the work of our soul which is God’s temple in us; 1 Corinthians 3:5-17. The soul always honors the Creator, just as the heart honors the flesh, when we listen to our soul we are delighted and have overcome the fleshly anguish of good and evil and the Holy Spirit comforts us.

(144) – The righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting; give me understanding, and I shall live. There is not a day (maybe even an hour) that goes by where we are not confronted with a cry or complaint of someone. A co-worker, a son or daughter, or maybe even a parent. Emotional moments that for the one complaining needs immediate relief but cannot obtain it. IT IS only through the LORD’s testimonies resident in our soul that we are not consumed with them. Psalm 119:86-88, God has graciously given us the testimony of His mouth. WOW!