You may not realize it, but you probably brush your teeth the same way every day. You back up your car with the same motions. You sit at the same spot at your kitchen table.
That’s the power of habit. Your brain relegates repeated decisions to a sort of internal autopilot, so it can conserve energy for more important tasks. In everyday living, these habits create comfortable routines. And as long as those habits are healthy, you’re none the worse for it.
But in your spiritual life, living in this kind of comfort zone does not serve you well. Left too long in a state of inertia, you will find that your spiritual muscles begin to atrophy.
Likewise, we can equate our spiritual comfort zones to an agricultural analogy. A plowed field grows more fertile, while an untouched field becomes overcome with weeds and wildlife.
So how do we move out of our spiritual comfort zone? How do we become more fertile ground?
In our new series, The Plow, we’ll look at people in the Bible whose lives were completely turned over. They said “yes” to God — and were never the same again.
“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be."
— William James