After 13 years of driving to the same home day-after-day, it’s funny how our brains just operate on auto-pilot. There are habits, choices and directions that are just instinctively made, without much (if any) thought being given to each individual step. After moving to a different home last month, all of a sudden, my “auto-pilot” is messed up; I’ve had to start thinking about each individual step to retrain it. However, sometimes my old auto-pilot kicks in, like it did last night, when I made a turn (that I’ve made thousands of times) to go home (to my old house)!
Isn’t this how life works! There are habits that we have that we may not even realize are habits. There are things we have been doing for years (perhaps decades) because that’s the way we’ve always done them. Habits can be good, and habits can be bad. Using the above illustration, think about how this applies to non-Christians who need to repent (and how hard it is to change bad habits). Also, think about how being at the church building “every time the doors are open” and even sharing the joyous gospel message with people that we meet can become so instinctive in our lives that it’s like we’re on auto-pilot in serving the Lord.