Our worst habit is the easiest one to form and the toughest one to break.

Good News Weekly Message

Once something becomes habit, it’s easy to forget why we started doing it in the first place. The same goes for our spiritual habits. It’s important for individuals and churches to regularly reassess what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. This week Jesus helps us reset the source of our righteousness. A wide variety of seemingly strange habits can be explained by our universal need for righteousness. Seeking righteousness in things that we do isn’t a habit we even need to develop—it’s part of our nature. Instead, it’s a habit that needs divine intervention to break. Thankfully, Jesus' words not only help us do that. They also develop a new habit that is truly strange—finding our righteousness only in him.