A lot of us can become set in our ways! That part is very easy to do, the hard part is coming to know it and learning how to break the mould! If you live life a certain way, go to work at the set time, have the same grumble about the traffic, have the same view about your life and prospects, continue in a set routine for a long long time, then it all leads to a set pattern of events developing around your life.
With God though, he wants more for us than to become spiritually, or physically, set in our ways!
There's much much more to our amazing God than an observance of rituals, be they spiritual or encompassing every other aspect of our walk.
Breaking bad life patterns, or just moving with Gods timing for us, is a learned art. The problem being that we're all inclined to get comfy in the familiar surroundings that we live in, be they good or even bad. A prisoner can get used to and even begin to feel safe inside the bars that surround him.
Anyone who goes on to reach their full potential in life, will go through the mould breaking we're talking about here. Hebrews 11:8 and Genesis 12:1 recall that even Abraham, the father of faith was told to get up from his city, his country, his job and his friends and family, to follow God towards his promise. His heart though, saw something incredible contained in what God was saying to him and so he packed up everything and saw amazing multiplication around him begin to occur. If he wasn't laden down with many goods before he left, then by the time he positioned himself in line with God's word for his life, he soon was. God, it says, blessed him incredibly till he out shone all in the land that God sent him too to inherit.
Sometimes we can dwindle and die off if we remain static and held up on our base camp. Life with God revolves around faith and being always ready to move on! After all, as Abraham learned, he was a stranger and a pilgrim seeking a better, higher purpose and destiny than he ever would have had, if he'd remained constructing idols in ur of the Chaldeans.
I remember the story of Elijah 1 kings 17:1-17 and the ravens, how God sent him to the brook Cherith and fed Elijah during a very severe famine with bread in the morning and meat in the evening, delivered by air mail (or in reality the ravens) and how this continued many days. Every day Gods provision came without fail, morning and evening but one day, the brook began to dry up as the famine got worse, and it came time for a change!
You know you can stay in one place for a long time, but there comes a point where Gods calling for a change, for you to rise up in faith and embrace the new thing he's doing!
In Elijah's case, his comfy river life was replaced by the sight of a little widow woman in Samaria, gathering a few dried up sticks to cook the last of her meagre provisions for her and her son, before they too perished in the famine, but Gods plans always work out!
Far from it being the last meal of the widow and her son, by giving first to Elijah, all of them were fed in a miraculous way till the famine broke!
This is because the God we have believed in, is a living God, not a stone idol or a myth conjured up by a mysterious guru!
Our God is real and he desires us to know that and to experience him in our day to day walk.
We need him so much and it's his spirit in us that stops the River of our life from turning into a stagnant pond! His desire is for us to inherit his promise for our lives!
We've been told that the promise is for us! What we need to do is break the mould of indifference, fear, indolence and ignorance and arise to his great call!