If you\u2019ve ever driven in Europe, the first obvious problem is to learn to drive forward on left lanes. It\u2019s so easy to go wrong\u2014and even occasion an accident! How come? Because we Westerners (i.e., those who drive west of the Atlantic ocean) are used to doing the opposite.<\/p>\n
\u201cUsed to\u201d\u2014those are interesting words.\u00a0 I suppose that they come from the idea of doing something regularly enough that it is what you do when you drive in the usual<\/em><\/strong> way in the USA.<\/p>\n Now, this \u201cused to-ness\u201d is a capacity that God built into us.\u00a0 He did so for our benefit\u2014so that every time we do something we would not have to learn the practice all over again. Now that would keep us from getting much accomplished. We\u2019d spend most of the time trying to learn the practice which we would have to learn all over again.<\/p>\n The only problem is that we too often learn to do habitually lots of wrong things instead of righteous ones! It takes conscious effort to learn to do holy actions instead of, and \u2013in addition to\u2014regular practices (just like driving on the right side of the road).<\/p>\n Of course, that\u2019s the second factor\u2014discovering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you\u2019ve ever driven in Europe, the first obvious problem is to learn to drive forward on left lanes. It\u2019s so easy to go wrong\u2014and even occasion an accident! How come? Because we Westerners (i.e., those who drive west of the Atlantic ocean) are used to doing the opposite. \u201cUsed to\u201d\u2014those are interesting words.\u00a0 I …
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