A few days ago I was reading a text about the formation of habits, I ended up linking the text to my return on holiday trip, I traveled a few days. Being away from home is good, but why is it good?Because we know new people, we walk in different places than we are used to spending our days, it is also good because we do not have to stick to fixed schedules, besides, free yourself from other rules, such as wearing social clothes. clothes and be able to wear the most comfortable clothes, eating at different times of the day delicious little things that move away from the diet established for a healthy life.
It’s all right! After all, the holidays must have an air of freedom.
- However.
- As I read the text on habit formation.
- I realized how breaking my routine made me miss the habits already established in my life.
Not having a specific time to wake up on vacation days has disrupted my devotional habits. I had to struggle with time, myself and other distractions to try to maintain a minimal (or even minimal) devotional routine.
This state of events revealed something simple that I could not notice until the routine was changed.
Implementing habits in our lives requires planning, effort and time, but once established, habit saves us time, effort and planning!
When I wake up in the morning, my mind connects with God, that’s because I’ve been doing this every day for some time, somehow, the habit calls me to do the daily program, in a sequence of established habits, my devotion unfolds. I pray, I read the scriptures, I meditate on a verse or word that impressed me during reading, I memorize a verse, I write something about it, I read and I follow life.
I don’t need to do a devotional project every morning, because the habit drives me to achieve what was previously planned and executed systematically, just as we do our first morning movements (getting up, doing our personal hygiene, drinking coffee, going out). for our morning appointment: studying or working or caring for someone or the house), so the habit works systematically by making and making the same movement.
When my spiritual habits are implanted in my routine, I can no longer be without exercising them, the habit generates an impulse that pushes me to do so.
The habit makes me buy time. The dress is like a ballet in my path, it is easier to practice spiritual disciplines when they have already become a habit printed on my mind, soul, body and heart, and as the habit has already exercised my muscles many times for this same exercise. I am happy to repeat the movement that I already have the ability to make, it is an impulse of life that gives joy, makes you happy, makes you want to start over.
Sheep, creating spiritual habits will require a little effort on your part, you will have to prepare a routine, set the execution time, but it will be worth it.
Here we enter almost the second half of the year, but habits can be started at any time.
I will specifically highlight 5 points to implement spiritual habits in your life.
1. Hold someone to account. Establishing a habit will require a commitment, if you have someone you can get involved with and be responsible for the new habit you want to establish, it will help you on the days when you fail or be discouraged from resuscitating your goal.
2. Start with how little you can achieve. Don’t set very high goals that require more than you can achieve. Start with what you’re sure you can accomplish.
3. Start with the basics. Do not be overwhelmed by your spiritual discipline, if you start with the basics (prayer and reading of the Bible), gradually you can complement it with other disciplines that will enrich your spiritual life (meditation, memorization, spiritual journal, etc. ).
4. Spiritual habits are established in your routine. Having a healthy spiritual life doesn’t mean you have to become a nun in a monastery far from the world!On the contrary, the simpler and more practical their spiritual habits are, the more likely they are to settle quickly and firmly take root in the lives of their sheep.
5. Empiece. No wait for the perfect time, the perfect plan, the sunny day, college graduation. Just start with a basic plan and refine. The rewards will come.
Studies indicate that we have to do something for at least 21 days for a habit to develop. Plan simply, start and stick with it.
Once a habit is established, it is unlikely to stop
The spiritual habit will give you the freedom to know and walk closer to Christ and stay with him in the hustle and bustle of life.
Come and go, sheep!
And my tongue will celebrate your righteousness and praise all day. Psalm 35. 28