Get your HABIT on!

We all worship something (sports, music, the list goes on…) – but GOD commands, desires, deserves our genuine worship!  Our worship of GOD is soooo much more than Sunday mornings! It must be our entire life – a 24/7-kinda thing.

Our worship of GOD must become a HABIT. We’re all basically selfish (worshiping the things that please us or are interesting to us) and it’s probably not our default to worship GOD.  Keying off the word HABIT, the old English (and French, thanks to my friend Christian) definition of HABIT is “clothing, a condition, or character of something.”

Keeping in mind the definition above, a nuns garb is called a HABIT.  Their HABIT is a reminder to them and a sign to others of the cloistered life they have chosen.

As followers of Christ, we have a HABIT – JESUS CHRIST:

• We are covered with Christ
  Galatians 3:26-27 – “For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” (ESV)
• Our identity is changed
  2 Corinthians 5:17 – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (ESV)
• Our HABITUAL, PRACTICAL worship is a reminder, sign, and testimony
  Romans 12:1-2 – “So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.” (The Message)

Pretty cool, eh?

I used this illustration at a men’s breakfast at church a few months as I led a conversation on worship as a lifestyle.  It is based on something I read in David Crowder’s book “Praise Habit: Finding God In Sunsets And Sushi.” He referenced the film A Nun’s Story (starring Audrey Hepburn) and the basic theme above (I added the scripture references – hey, you gotta have those!).  If you’ve never seen the film (I hadn’t), I found the film on YouTube (in 10-minute segments).

Our worship of GOD must be a HABIT…so “get your habit on!”