“If you are changing your current situation or condition and moving toward a new one, unless there is a continuous and rapid movement in this new direction, there will be an automatic tendency for the former state or condition to be restored.”  Seni Hazzan

What would you consider to be your good habits?  That’s fantastic!  Now, how about a list of your bad habits?

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is.  (Rom. 12:2; NLT)

As I said when I started this series (8/6), in my reading over the past several years, I’ve been exposed to many lists of so-called irrefutable laws.  Of all those lists, I have found the list of nine by Hazzan (from his book, Rebuilding from Ground Zero) to be the most useful and consistent with my Christian world view.  I have been sharing these laws through the last several DGs.  Today, we are bringing the series to a close with the last of the nine laws.  Don’t forget to leave comments as you feel led.

It’s fitting that this law, the law of harmony, is the last law as this one essentially states that “all the laws work in cooperation with one another; none violate the operation of the others.”  As we were working our way through the laws over the last couple of weeks, I’m sure you noticed the intricacy and apparent overlap of the nine laws.  In essence, they are a collection of separates which only function optimally when working together as a whole.  (Kind of like a marriage, a family, a community, a city, a state, a nation, etc.)  Put in another way, if you apply any one of the laws individually, you may notice a small difference in your life, but if you use them collectively, you will see an amazing change, what Hazzan describes as “a quantum leap in your outcomes.”

The other truth about these laws is captured in Hazzan’s quote above.  If you apply all or any of these laws for a short period of time, you will only see a result for a short period of time.  Like most things, for life change to occur, there must be a consistent and continuous application of these laws for them to truly change your life.  I love the motto, “gentle pressure relentlessly applied.”  Relentlessly is the key word.  Relentlessly means never ceasing, never letting up.

The application of these laws are like any other change you are trying to bring about to improve any area of your life–the change must become a habit.  And a habit is not something that you do only when you are thinking about it.  A habit must come from your subconscious mind for it to be truly effective.  These laws must move from a mental assent in your head to an automatic, instinctive response that arises out of your heart or unconscious mind.  Pretty tall order you say?  Yes, but observe that you have successfully installed several habits in your life.  It can be done.  How about installing some habits that serve you and serve those around you?

It’s the beginning of a brand new week.  Let it be the beginning of a brand new you.  Happy Monday!

Prayer Power
Lord, give us the grace to make the application of these nine laws a habit in our lives.  Help us move toward the point of applying them without even thinking about them anymore.

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Blessings on you as you start off this new week as a new person.

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