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HABIT. The only way to get rid of a bad habit is to stop it at once. If you try tapering off, this is the result. You drop the “H” and you still have…
A BIT. You think you are getting over it by dropping a little bit of the evil thing, so you go on and drop the “A,” but you still are…
BIT. That is to say, you are deceiving yourself. You are where you were. You are still bitten by the evil thing. However, you think you are progressing, so you drop the “B,” but you still lack. You still have…
IT. And “it” is the sting of habit. “It” has been the trouble all along. You are where you started. Even when you drop the “I” you still have…
T. Which stands for temptation. And temptation is a longer word to get rid of than habit. Better do the thing wholesale and drop all the letters at once.
“Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul” (1 Peter 2:11).