How habits form and lead to character and destiny

 

                       

Thought leads to actions

                        Actions lead to habits

                        Habits become your character

                        Character determines destiny (your eternal life)

 

 

                        Sensory data;   

                        gets into our soul and spirit;

by force or by choice à  thought

Thought         à words and action

                        Word and actions à habits

                        Habits            à character

                        Character      à  destiny

                        Destiny          à  eternal results

 

 

 

This

Produces

This

Questions being considered

 

 

Various things happen to us like combinations of sensory data such as  light, sound, smell, touch, taste, words, visuals, noises, various sensations …

 

And these produce responses within us that we call

 

Thought(s)

 

What are you allowing into your senses?  Are there things happening outside our senses?  Are there “bad” sensations?  What are some things not good for our children?  Why?

 

Consider the numerous ways the world system tries to get (often wrong information) into our senses:  e.g. mail, magazines, newspapers, TV, radio, music, speeches, theater, Internet, signs, books, telephone, schools, courts, monuments, government …,

 

 

Thought(s) become words and

 

Produce or lead to

 

Action(s) or purposes which are expressed in words…

 

Whatever we put into our minds, in whatever way, will influence our actions.  Actions of the soul; the soul being our mind, will, and emotion.  And most importantly, another undeniable part of us; our spirit.  Some avoid thinking about the spirit. Some focus on intellect.

 

The most influential Book of all “time” has been the Bible.  Yet many of today’s students, teachers, “scholars” and other people who claim to be well-educated have not read this best seller of all time.  Why is this so?  How can any one intelligently discuss a book they have never read?  How can anyone not read this Book of books known as the Christian Bible and still consider them selves “intelligent” or well educated?  Why would any one avoid reading such a book?

 

Why is the Christian Bible one, if not the only, book that is prohibited in our schools and colleges?  Are there other books that are taboo or not allowed? 

 

 

Action(s)

 

produce

 

Habit(s)

 

When we repeat actions …

 

 

Habit(s)

 

produce

 

Character

 

Our repeated behavior becomes virtually automatic … our inclinations or predisposed way of responding to situations …

 

 

Character

 

produces

 

Destiny

 

Our character leads us to one destiny or another …

 

 

Destiny

 

produces

 

Eternal results

 

Is there a heaven? Hell? Eternity?

 

Death will happen to 1 out of 1 people.  Death is 100% likely for you and for me. 

 

Where do you want to spend eternity?

 

How long is eternity compared to a “lifetime”? 

 

What would you trade for heaven eternally?  Riches, fame, sex, perversions, power? 

 

Why would God create us to long for something special that we cannot fulfill in this life, this lifetime, and while in this temporal world?

 

Is it that we were created not for this temporal world but for a better place?  Heaven?

 

Our Christian Bible tells us about all these questions and the book of Revelation especially relates how a new heaven and a new earth is created … for us to be eternally with God…  Why not start at the end of the book?

 

 

 

 

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

~ Tyron Edwards

 

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. ~

~ Unknown

 

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves 

~ Horace Bushnell

 

Coming soon: Biblical references for the topics on this page;  

How can one change bad habits?

 

Truth and Light = Good (not garbage) in à opportunity to make a good eternal choice; 

God does the rest!