Acts 22:4 I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison

Just how far is too far? How far are you willing to go to keep your habits going? How far do you go to make sure people see things your way?

Paul did not see how far he had gone down the zealous route until God pointed out the truth to him! He thought he was doing the right thing by sending people to prison or to their death just because they wanted to believe in Jesus.

I am truly thankful I live in a country which allows me to express my beliefs – long may it continue this way; we need to make sure people have the choice of following Christ by giving them the truth which Jesus gave us...

Galatians 1:14 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

It does not matter how far you think you are away from God or how bad you think you are – God is always ready and waiting to take you under His arms!

The apostle was well and truly engaged with Judaism and the traditions which it promoted; traditions which God did not ask for!

But God was faithful to take him out of this life of habits and use him to spread the gospel message to so many gentiles- Paul was called by God!

Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.

Not only should we be watching ourselves to make sure we are not just doing things because of habits, but we need to watch what other people are telling us.

If people are more interested in telling us how to have habits instead of a true relationship with God, then we don’t need them to run our lives for us!

Compare what you hear with what God has told us through reading His word – our bibles.