God As A Lifestyle
Oswald Chambers, the Scottish evangelist and teacher wrote about the habit of having no habits where he implores us to check ourselves to see if our god is something other than God. He explains that it is easy to develop Christian habits that we focus on rather than focusing on the Lord Himself. This is something we all need to take a prayerfully close look at. Chambers sums it up by saying that our habits should be so immersed in the Lord that we practice them without realizing it. What this is really known as is: developing God as a lifestyle. Merriam-Webster defines lifestyle as the typical way of life of an individual. It is how we go about our life, day in and day out. How we shop for groceries, how we walk through our workday, how we spend our leisure time—even how we spend our ‘devotional time’, ‘prayer time’, or our ‘time alone with God’ time. This God-lifestyle is being one with God wherever we are, whatever we are doing. Being in constant communion, unceasing prayer, continuous engagement, and having total consciousness of Him in every breath of every step of every day. As the Spiritual Journey progresses, allow Him to show you which habits to put down, and which ones to pick up to develop the God-lifestyle in you to attain that which Jesus lived on the earth: where Jesus was at home with the Heavenly Father any where, any place, any time.