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Now I’m alert to God’s ways. I don’t take God for
granted.—Psalm 18:21

Make praise your habit.—Psalm 64:10

Form the habit of justice.—Psalm 106:3

Slack habits and sloppy work are as bad as vandalism.
—Proverbs 18:9

All your lives you’ve let sin tell you what to do. But
thank God you’ve started listening to a new master,
one whose commands set you free to live openly in
his freedom!—Romans 6:17-18

It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying
to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless,
cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional
garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness;
trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness;
cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied
wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be
loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded
and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing
everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable
addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could
go on. This isn’t the first time I have warned you, you
know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not
inherit God’s kingdom.—Galatians 5:19-21

Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with
the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert
to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the
action is. See things from his perspective.—Colossians 3:2

Make sure you don’t take things for granted and go
slack in working for the common good; share what you
have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts
of worship—a different kind of “sacrifice”—that take
place in kitchen and workplace and on the streets.
—Hebrews 13:16

People conceived and brought into life by God don’t
make a practice of sin. How could they? God’s seed
is deep within them, making them who they are. It’s
not in the nature of the God-begotten to practice and
parade sin.—1 John 3:9