Do you realize just how dramatically your lifestyle influences what you believe? It really does, just like your beliefs greatly influence your lifestyle. It is a cycle, and a circle. It keeps going around and around, unless you get off that merry-go-round and get on a new one.
Oswald Chambers described it this way: "The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience."
When you or I as believers disobey the Lord in some area, we are placing our spiritual life under a cloud of sorts. Things get rather fuzzy, at least in that area of our thinking. When a believer continues to commit the same sin over and over, he is in danger of believing "that's just the way I am" and the way I am going to remain. Read more
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