Old habits are hard to break. We try willpower and sometimes that works. We enlist the help of someone as an accountability type partner in the process. Sometimes we find success and sometimes we don’t. Behavioral patterns are even harder to stop. They are ingrained in us and often are difficult to even identify. Some of these patterns are sins in God’s eyes. We probably don’t want to continue to do thspese things, but seem helpless to stop.
II Corinthians 3:17 says, “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” Because the Holy Spirit lives within the believer, He gives the believer power to free oneself from old habits and ways. He transforms the believer into a new kind of person, into the image of God.
Reluctant Retiree 