{"id":47610,"date":"2022-05-11T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=47610"},"modified":"2022-05-11T01:16:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T06:16:45","slug":"habits-of-holiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=47610","title":{"rendered":"Habits of Holiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I once heard J.I. Packer say, “The Holy Spirit works through habits of holiness.” I don’t remember the context, but I was so impressed with the wording that I wrote it on the opening page of Romans in my New Testament, which was all I had to write on at the time.<\/p>\n

How right he was!<\/p>\n

And the question is whether or not your habits—and don’t kid anyone, you live a large share of your life by habit—are holy or not.<\/p>\n

What a great self-examining question that is!<\/p>\n

You see the problem with habits is that they are often the CAUSE<\/strong> of our difficulties with God and others.<\/p>\n

Habits are<\/p>\n

C<\/strong>omfortable – like old shoes; they fit us well. A<\/strong>utomatic – you don’t have to tell yourself, “do It,” you just do it. U<\/strong>nconscious – you begin to do something before you realize it. S<\/strong>killful – The plausible lie is out of your mouth before you know it. E<\/strong>mbedded – difficult to break. <\/p>\n

Indeed, so difficult that by God’s grace they must be replaced with their biblical alternatives. That is, with “Habits of holiness”—WHAT A WONDERFUL PHRASE!<\/p>\n

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Check out our online courses, including, Introduction to Nouthetic Counseling<\/p>\n

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I once heard J.I. Packer say, \u201cThe Holy Spirit works through habits of holiness.\u201d I don\u2019t remember the context, but I was so impressed with the wording that I wrote it on the opening page of Romans in my New Testament, which was all I had to write on at the time. How right he …
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