June 3rd, 2021: Dangerous Habits
Starting May 31st, our speed limit for residential area in my city is 40 km/hour unless posted otherwise. It will be interesting to see how many tickets will be issued. The city officials have failed to convince us that it will save lives. Some folks are cynical and call it the Cash Cow.
I don't trust that I can change my driving habits that quickly so I wrote 40 on a piece of paper and stick it on my steering wheel. It is a reminder of not getting back to the old habit. It will be bad if I fail to do so. As Benjamin Franklin once said:
"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them." Unbreakable bad habits are our chronic sins. It is the kind of sin that we come to God and ask Him for forgiveness only to discover that we have to do it over and over again.
Some people would argue that driving fast and dangerous driving are not the same. We can take that conversation into many directions and find no common ground. Some people would say that "white lies" are ok because they are not harmful. Here are our problems: we don't know how fast we drive if we are constantly speeding, and we don't realize that we lie because we lie all the time.
Some people would make excuses for their bad habits. Some told me that smoking weed help them to relax. That might be true for a short moment, and then they find out that they had no money for food. Now their kids' health is threatened. It is not relaxing for anyone. Excuses tend to follow wrong choices and decisions if we don't have the maturity to admit them.
1 Corinthians 15:55 – “Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”
Ephesians 4: 21-24 – "when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
