It’s hard to give up old habits. Sometimes, when forced, we can appear to reform, but without a major rebuild of heart and soul we soon revert to old ways.
Noah brought a pair of Ravens on the Ark with him. For a year the ravens appeared to change, but to no one’s surprise, once released they returned to old habits.
A raven was called an unclean animal because it feeds on dead things. For a year, the raven changed its diet because nothing on the ark died. The raven changed its habit but not its taste.
In a similar sense, many people come to God in an hour of crisis. They pray and ask God for special considerations after a major sickness, tragedy, or failure. They make promises to God that are real at the moment.
For a while they change their habits, they attend church, and seem to be different; yet, on the inside they are still the same people. A truly repentant person becomes a new person, not just a person who attends church.
2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” There is no substitute for being “In Christ.”
The raven took advantage of the safety of the ark and diet of fresh foods it offered for a year, but at the first opportunity, it intended to go back to its old ways.
We are new creatures in the Lord. We have no “taste” for worldliness. We are focused on Christ and him alone.
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