28 days later: 4 questions
Debates rage as to whether it takes 21 days, 28 days, or even an average of 60 days to change your habits. It probably depends on what habit you are breaking and what habit you want to form. It also depends on your own strength of willpower.
It has been just over a month since we first shut down our weekly services at church (21/22nd March). How are you going?
There are new pressures different people face: financial uncertainty and unemployment; tiredness and tensions in relationships; extra-work to take home; worries about elderly family members; cabin-fever in yourself or children; and loneliness and lack of accountability. Some are doing it really tough and others are enjoying aspects of this season.
Here are some diagnostic questions. Could you take some time to answer them personally before the Lord God?
1. What pre-Coronavirus habits have you continued that most help you in your walk with God?
2. What bad habits from your pre-Coronavirus life do you now wish to stop?What damage are they causing you or others spiritually?
3. What bad habits are new or exasperated due to Coronavirus isolation? What damage are they causing you or others spiritually?
4. What are some of the new habits are you developing in the last month that have been good for your walk with God?
Jesus calls us to follow him. He gives us rest, but there is no such thing as yoke-less Christianity. Trusting and obeying him is good for our souls.
“Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30)
In these issues can you commit yourselves to learning from Jesus? Will you come out the end of the crisis even stronger than when you entered?