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Learned Obedience

Obedience is a learned behavior. It’s not innate. It’s something we practice. It’s a discipline that’s borne over time and circumstance.

Despite these assumptions, I often forget that God places us in situations in which to grow our obedience. I also forget that these situations tend to coincide with temptation, and that these temptations, these enticements to conduct ourselves according to worldly standards, aren’t a one-time item we cross off our spiritual to-do list once we’ve conquered them. They often reappear...

You Know You’re a Perfectionist When…

You comment on a blog, notice you’ve misspelled something, quickly go back to edit it, but, realizing there’s no “Edit” button, you comment on your own comment with the correct spelling of the misspelled word, at which time you notice another error in your original comment, and it takes every ounce of you not to comment again, because you realize this nested tri-comment will make you look crazy.