Bad Habits (Part 2)

Bad Habits (Part 2)

Numbers 33:55, 56 "But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell. Moreover it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them."

God told Moses that he had to remove the wicked inhabitants and destroy their idols before he let the Israelites settle in the promised land. Whenever you have identified a bad habit in your life one way to combat it is to replace it with a good habit. If you spend one hour a day doing a bad habit then spend that same hour each day doing a good habit.

We have to completely remove the bad habits in our life rather than just settle down and live with them. Any sinful bad habits we have need to be replaced with a new life of good habits. Paul encouraged this same thing by telling us to throw out the old way of living and bring in the new life where we are obedient to God:

Colossians 3:9, 10 "Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him..."

When each of us examines our lives we probably find that we have habits which are difficult to overcome. Rather than trying to defeat these things ourselves we can go to God and ask for his assistance to overcome the bad habit. Overcoming a bad habit involves seeking the power of God to help you and then staying away from the situations that cause the bad habit.

Remember this:

1 John 3:9 NIV "No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God."