Here is an illustration. Draw a dot on the left hand side of the page. Now draw a dot 1/4” lower on the right hand side of the page. Take a ruler and draw a line between the two. See the slight deviation? It is a slow incremental downward slope.

Proverbs 2:10-13 says, “When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, from those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness.”

1 John 1:8 says, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” 1 John 2:5 gives us a measuring stick. It says, “But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.”

All actions are first thoughts. Therefore God’s way of life is to experientially live in His truths ~ personal application of Scripture. Colossians 3:16.