78. {Selah Moment} Are You Making Habits Your Idol? Some Great Wisdom from Oswald Chambers

Today I want to share with you some wisdom from the late and
great, Oswald Chambers. If you haven’t read My Utmost for My
Highest before, it is a treasure trove of wisdom. I can’t totally
explain how good the book is, but I do feel like there is so much
goodness in it.


The question we are pondering today is, do we idealize our
habits? Does our relationship with God become stale because we
are too focused on “doing” what we should be doing to be a “good
Christian?” Now I think that as the Bible tells us, there is
balance here. Our walk with God is ultimately going to be a walk
of faith (in which works strengthen our commitment to our faith),
but we need to be cognizant of when one or the other gets out of
balance and pulls us out of God’s will.


In Oswald’s reading, he directly says “Love means that there is
no habit visible, you have come to the place where the habit is
lost, and by practice you do the thing unconsciously.” What I
think is interesting here is that to actually form a habit, you
need to get to the point where it really does become second
nature. It’s not something you have to think about and ruminate
over - or something you have to dread. It becomes so ingrained in
you.


But, in relation to our walk with God, how many times do we get
stuck in the “should” instead of just walking with God out of
LOVE? I think what Oswald is trying to share with us is, how
often do our habits get in the way of actually living in
relationship with God? How often do they stop us from being
present? I know I have felt like reading a morning devotional was
more work than it was a relationship - and while those times that
I have grown immensely in my faith, knowledge and relationship
with the Lord I have held firm to those habits, I think that we
ultimately have to adapt to the seasons. For example, morning
devotionals look a lot different with three little kiddos in the
home - in fact, time with the Lord might be more about choosing
patience and joy with your kids that morning than sitting down to
read your Bible for 20 minutes at 6:00 AM.


Once again - a total balance, but the perspective is so eye
opening in terms of breaking off religion and stepping into
relationship. It makes you think how much we complicate our
faith, and all we need to do is be present in relationship with
God regardless of what it looks like that day.


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