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”
