It has occurred to me that my daily routine is increasingly becoming a rut. The quote below from the Asbury Theological Seminary Kingdom Tide reader reminded me of one of the perils of traveling in a rut.
Fixed habits don’t change easily; no one leaves his or her assumptions quickly. If you rely more on your own reason and hard work than on the Spirit’s power, which brings you under the obedience of Jesus Christ, you will wait a long time for illumination; for God intends to make us fully subject to Him so that, inflamed with His love, we will rise above the narrow limits of human reason.
Thomas à Kempis (Donald E. Demaray, ed.), The Imitation of Christ, 1:14:3