Habits of a Healthy Heart

Habits form us. We make habitual choices that move deeper and deeper into our hearts and eventually define us. We make those choices because of the counsel we take. We take that counsel and are formed by those habits because they feed us in some way. Every habit pays off in a way that keeps us coming back for more. Habits rooted in wickedness and sin will leave us feeling like chaff: hollow and discarded. The habits of the righteous make us bear fruit when it’s time and keep us from withering before it’s time. Christian habits themselves don’t make us healthy. Those habits merely keep us near God, feeding on him and being nourished by him. What’s more, even in our bad habits, God is moving water that comes to us where we are, which he did most pointedly in sending Christ to us. Even when we don’t know the way to him, God knows the way to us.