How Your Lifestyle Sways What You Believe

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