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“"We Are What We Repeatedly Do"”
Categories: Daily Living“We Are What We Repeatedly Do”
Jarrod Jacobs
The above is from Aristotle (384-322 B.C.). Truly, our habits have a great impact upon our lives. It should not surprise us then to note that God wants His people to repeatedly do what He says.
- “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord …” (I Cor. 15:58).
- “And let us not be weary in well doing …” (Gal. 6:9).
- “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed” (Jas. 1:25).
- “… be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life” (Rev. 2:10).
From this, we see that God wants us to continue in a certain manner of life. This is because, “We are what we repeatedly do.” The man who dies in sin does so because he lived in sin (Jn. 8:24; Col. 3:7). In contrast, the man who dies in the Lord (Rev. 14:13) does so because he lived in the Lord!
Thus, we ask: “What do we repeatedly do?” If we do not like what we are becoming, then it is time to stop what we are doing and start doing something else until the habit is formed!
Aristotle’s complete statement is: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” May we resolve to make excellence a habit by making the decision to become a Christian (Acts 2:38) and live faithfully to the God of Heaven. A life spent in repeatedly doing what God says will not be a wasted life (I Cor. 15:58).
