2 Kings 14: Deliberate Sin or Muscle Memory?!
- Kami Pentecost
- Sep 14
- 1 min read
“However the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.” II Kings 14:4 NKJV
As I was reading this morning, I couldn’t help but think about how many patterns we step into—not
out of deliberate disobedience, but out of habit. Almost like spiritual muscle memory. The people of Israel weren’t necessarily trying to rebel, but the high places had become so normal, so ingrained, that they didn’t even question them anymore.
It’s as if the Lord is saying: This is the season to develop new habits and new patterns. To break off the old ones that no longer serve you, that keep you tied to the flesh instead of walking by the Spirit.
Lord, open my eyes to the “high places” in my life that I’ve normalized. Show me the patterns that feel familiar but don’t align with You. I don’t want to live on autopilot—I want to live in Your Spirit. Break the grip of old habits, and teach me to form new ones that reflect Your ways. Thank You that by Your grace, I am no longer bound to the flesh but free to walk in newness of life. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Sometimes the hardest battles aren’t the ones we consciously fight but the ones we unconsciously repeat. Yet His Spirit gives us the power to unlearn the old ways and step into new rhythms of freedom.
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