Habits
Every Day Wisdom – Habits
Pastor Matt Pierson
“Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Three Habits from Proverbs
- Diligence
- Laziness
- Formation
“Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.”
Proverbs 6:6-8
“Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth. He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.”
Proverbs 10:4-5
“Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.”
Proverbs 18:9
“Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.”
Proverbs 24:32-34
“Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.”
Proverbs 4:25-27
“Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.”
Proverbs 4:23
Formation
- The dangers of drift
- The power of the 1% change
- The liturgy of the ordinary
Spiritual Disciplines
- Word
- Prayer
- Fasting
- Fellowship
“How I spend this ordinary day in Christ is how I will spend my Christian life.”
Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary
“Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.”
Jeremiah 6:16
“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.”
Psalm 1:1-6
Resources
The Common Rule by Justin Whitmel Earley
Atomic Habits by James Clear
You Are What You Love by James K. A. Smith
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren
The Body Teaches the Soul by Justin Whitmel Earley
You’re Only Human by Kelly Kapic
Habits of Grace by David Mathis
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
