For the Love of Us All

BAD HABITS---GOOD HABITS

We all have bad habits

We all have some GOOD habits

Not too easy

To get rid of the bad habits

Is it

There are many forms of addictions

Cigarette smoking-drugs-alcohol-pornography

You can be addicted to anything

Television-computer

Even face book-lol-GOD forbid

I had a problem

With pornography earlier in my life

I am a person

With pretty strong willpower

And TRY as I might

I couldn’t overcome it

But you can beat your addiction

WITH FAITH IN GOD

Jesus explains to us

That when a bad spirit is exercised

If a GOOD SPIRIT

Doesn’t take its place

The bad spirit will return

And you will be

Worse off than before

“When an evil spirit

Comes out of a man

It goes through arid places

Seeking rest

And does not find it

Then it says

“I will return

To the house I left”

When it arrives

It finds the house

Swept clean

And put in order

Then It goes

And takes seven other spirits

More wicked than itself

And they go in

And live there

And the final condition

Of that man

Is worse than the first”                                                  Luke 11:24-26

That is

What can happen

If we try

To beat bad habits

With willpower

But if we replace

Our bad habits

With FAITH IN GOD

With something

Outside of ourselves

LIKE FAITH in God

Maybe we can’t

TOTALLY win the war

And MAYBE we can

But I am here

To tell you

If you develop your faith

If you

REALLY BELIEVE IN GOD

You will find yourself

Winning mental battles

That you were losing before

Instead of watching television

Take a walk

Instead of criticizing someone

PRAISE SOMEONE

Instead of complaining

GIVE THANKS TO GOD

We were

NOT created to do bad things

But to do GOOD things

“Trust in the Lord

And do good

Dwell in the land

And enjoy safe pasture”                                          Psalm 37:3

So how can we

REPLACE bad habits

With good habits

DEVELOP YOUR FAITH

Jesus himself says,

“Blessed are they

Who hear the Word of God

And obey it”                                                          Luke 11:28

It’s not easy

To just stop

A bad habit

In fact-for some of us

It is downright impossible

It is much easier

AND MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE

To replace a bad habit

BY DOING SOMETHING GOOD

Robert P. Wallman

10-18-12

Ps       Inspired by an article in Living Faith magazine 10-12-12

           By Paige Byrne Shortal