Stop the Insanity!

Someone has said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, but expecting different results. I like that. And it occurs to me that this is exactly what a lot of us do in one way or another. We make the same bad choices, pursue the same bad habits, and hold the same bad ideas as yesterday, but we think that today the outcome will be different. Today they will bring fulfillment and happiness.

And when repeating those same mistakes again brings us frustration and sorrow (as it always does), we just can’t see what went wrong. We blame someone or something else. And we assure ourselves that tomorrow, if we just try it again, that same old thinking and behavior will finally get us what we’re after.

That is crazy. But God invites us to turn from the insanity and pursue a better way—His way. “Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you. Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit!” (Ezekiel 18:30-31).