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Habits are one part of our lives we control, but we can’t choose our parents. God made sure they love you by implanting love into their beings, although some moms and dads don’t show their love. But even parents who forsake their children love them, because many come back to them later in life and ask for forgiveness.
Habits entwine
themselves into us in a similar way and become part of who we are. Some habits
make us better people because they cause us to do good things. Bad habits
wrapped into our character jeopardize our future.
DO
HABITS MAKE OR BREAK YOUR FUTURE?
By Ada Brownell
Excerpt from IMAGINE THE FUTURE YOU
Habits
are like the tree in Vashon Island, Washington, that grew around a bicycle until the bike
became part of the tree. Somebody obviously leaned the bike against the tree
when it was a small sapling. Now the bicycle is lodged into a large tree trunk
five or six feet off the ground. It is impossible to remove the bike without
destroying the tree.
Dr. Alan
Friedman, a botanist at Marquette University in Milwaukee, says if an immovable
object comes in contact with a growing tree, the growth that creates wood and
bark will eventually cover the object. The only exception is a wire or rope put
entirely around a tree, which will kill it.[1]
Habits are one part of our lives we control, but we can’t choose our parents. God made sure they love you by implanting love into their beings, although some moms and dads don’t show their love. But even parents who forsake their children love them, because many come back to them later in life and ask for forgiveness.
Some people think if they have bad habits it's their parents' fault. Parents are involved all right but we can't choose our mom and dad. We do choose to copy good and bad behavior. It's our choice.
Yet, parents are
stuck with their children, and their children are stuck with them. Your mother and father didn't have control over the genes you inherited, either. By the same
token, they had nothing to do with the kind of atmosphere their ma and pa
provided for them that influenced their behavior.
True
genetics, culture, temperament, talents, education, beliefs, quirks, and
hang-ups of the people who gave us earthly life affect us, but we can’t blame
them if we end up a drunkard, too lazy to support ourselves, or in prison. No
matter who we are, our background, what internal and external obstacles we
face, we can scramble over everything in our way and reach a life of joy and
fulfillment.
By
making wise decisions every hour of every day. The wisest decision we’ll ever
make is to believe the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, for He came that we
might have life and have it more abundantly. In comparing us to sheep Jesus
said, “The thief’s (Satan’s) purpose
is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and
satisfying life” John 10:10 NLT.
This not only means a satisfying life on earth,
but for eternity. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John
3:16).
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