BAD HABIT

BAD HABIT

II Kings 5:11-26

Devotional:- “But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Look, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, while not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as the LORD lives, I will run after him and take something from him” (V. 20) NKJV

    So many people on earth would have been successful except for the bad habits in their lives. Such grows in our lives when we are careless about them. We are creatures made to be able to create habits. There are success habits and there are failure habits. Success habits will guarantee you success and failure habits will surely bring failure. Habits are what we are used to but it is no longer easy to depart from. People would have corrected us but we refused to listen. We need to be aware that bad habits are there to ruin our lives. You must therefore be willing to see its end before it sees your end.

The man we read about today is one of the most privileged men that ever lived. He should have automatically become the next prophet in Israel. He is the next in command to the prophet. Many people are already expecting the next mantle to fall on him. The rest of the prophets in the land will always envy him, simply because he was the next expected prophet. But this bad habit in his life would not let him get there. He was greedy; he went and accepted the gift his master rejected and ended up his destiny.

Friend, do not let any habit stop your success. Pull out of the association that locks you with this habit (Proverb 13:20). Choose the company of achievers, children of God, and men of honour. Introduce the opposite of that bad habit and ask the Holy Spirit to destroy this habit in your life. Regularly listen to the word of God. Soon your life will change and your glory shall come.

PRAYER: LORD, STRENGTHEN ME TO DESTROY THE BAD HABIT IN ME BEFORE IT DESTROYS ME.

“A BAD HABIT NOT DESTROYED WILL DESTROY DESTINY”