Do your habits lead to Jesus?

A rut has been called “A grave, open at both ends.” I am old enough to remember muddy, unpaved roads and their ruts. To drive on such a road and in it’s ruts was to go where those ruts led. Fortunately there are very few such roads today. But figuratively too many let their ruts guide them. We call them “habits.” Habits can be good. Habits tell us to wash our face, brush our teeth and get dressed each morning. This saves us from having to make conscious decisions over and over. Habits tell us what roads to travel on our way to get groceries, or go to work, or hopefully, to go to church. Habits, following our ruts, can be good. They can also be bad.
The Apostle Paul was very active in the spread of Christianity But before this the ruts 

that guided him led him to persecute Christians. He was on the Damascus Road when he had an encounter with Jesus that caused him to leave the ruts that had guided him. In his letter to the Christians at Galatia, he wrote “I was advancing in Judaism beyond my countrymen, being more zealous.” (Galatians 1:14) He got out of the ruts that guided him in his spiritual life, and so can we.
What has this to do with us? First, ask yourself if what guides your life is tradition, or is it a personal relationship with Jesus. Second, where is the road you are traveling going? And third, are you willing to give up anything that prevents you from going where Jesus wants you to go and to do anything He wants you to do?