Habit

I have been prone to confuse the ideas of habit and enslavement.  My intuition has been that if there is a tendency that almost universally determines my action or type of action, then it has power over me and I am its slave.  This correlation made things messy when paired up with the whole freedom in Christ idea.  Does Christ free us from any and every obedience to habit?  I have never met a Christian with whom this is the case; indeed, he would be quite the specimen.

I have come rather to an understanding, just recently, that humans simply are habitual… they tend toward things naturally and consistently.  If humans are naturally habitual, then the supposition that God made them so can be safely assumed.  And if God made it so, then it is good for it to be so.  Hence began my search for the goodness of habit.