Habitually Holy – Drill and Kill – Light with Fruit – Titanic – Near Death Experience – Ask, Believing – All These Details

I have a friend that asks me for a job every time he thinks he might get laid off.  I do not think he realizes I am a one-man band and there is only room for one man. Not that I would not hire him, but I recently learned I would have to charge sales tax for him and that creates more administration that a one-man band wants. Even now when I look at all that has to be done for our existing two businesses and our household, I have a nightmarish vision of screaming “All these details”.

Titanic is a great word that has been hijacked by the failings of men on a dark night in the Atlantic. I once thought the story was a chance for man to learn from his mistakes and regain some humility. Now I think it was only that for a hand full of individuals and everyone else only got a movie out of it.

We watched a silly movie last night that came out in 1995 (the year I got married as it turns out). I had a vague affinity for the lead in the movie and thought I had seen it and enjoyed it because of that. I watched horrified that I remembered nothing, and for all its good vibes, I did not like it. Our lives are to be showing the “Light with Fruit” and this movie felt more like “Near Death Experience”.  The death of my memory and my reliance on it for what constitutes a good flick.

If our lives are to truly show the light of God and produce the fruit of the spirit, we need to be “Habitually Holy”. Habits can be really good things. I develop driving habits and my conscious brain does not have to work so hard. If we develop reading and studying habits, then our days can be more fruitful and our efforts more productive.

Drill and kill is of course one of my favorite math themes of working until it all is practically habitual. 6+5=11 is burned into my brain and I can use it anytime I want, failing memory or not. I believe we should apply this to the bible and have the good burned into our brains so that we can not help but apply it to our lives.

Today I said a prayer for someone, and I started with a plea for how my desired outcome would help my life. Then I thought of all the ways this outcome would help others and that my personal preference paled in comparison to these others. In the end, I realized that if I were to Ask, Believing that the benefits would not matter so much as the reliance on God would create the needed personal outcome. It all starts with our personal relationship to Christ, but one reward is the ability to Ask, Believing.