We have about a half dozen emails from listeners asking a very similar question, and it's

essentially this.

Is it okay to come away from Bible reading without a life principle or a specific point

of application, or another way to ask a pastor, John, is must we come away from our Bible

reading with an application principle every single time?

Yeah, I feel pretty strongly about this.

The answer is no, and here's why I feel strongly about it.

I would say 95%, maybe 99% of my life, and I think everybody's life, is lived without

immediate reflection upon a life principle, but rather we just act.

If you think about your day, there are maybe 100 big decisions you make in a day, and

that big, I just mean conscious.

But 95% of your time, like right now, I'm just talking to you, I'm just choosing words,

I'm not, before every word, I'm not stopping saying what principle is going to govern this

word, and what principle is going to govern this sentence, it's just kind of tumbling

out of me.

Right now, well that's scary, right, where did they come from?

Which means, most of our lives are lived spontaneously.

Most of our lives are not lived after 10 seconds of reflection on a biblical principle.

So where did they come from?

They come from a kind of person, and now it raises the question of, well, how do you become

a kind of person so that your tree that bears spontaneous good fruit instead of a bad

tree that bears spontaneously bad fruit?

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