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Job 34:32
32 That which I see [chazah] not [bil`adey] teach [yarah] thou me: if I have done [pa`al] iniquity [`evel], I will do [yacaph] no more. KJV-Interlinear
32 Teach Thou me what I do not see; If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'? NASB
One of the fundamental principles to probably everything in life, is attitude. This is especially true with regard to your spiritual life. And this is probably the single biggest barrier to advancing in ones spiritual life.
A positive attitude is the primary ingredient for learning and growing up.
A positive attitude is being open minded, optimistic, constructive, encouraging, voluntary subordination to authority, and especially recognition of authority, which has been properly established.
God is the ultimate authority, and in fact, He is the original and the only authority that exists anywhere. All other authority positions can only be established by God.
Any position of authority established by God is legitimate, and any position of authority which has not been established by God, is not legitimate.
The first rule of the spiritual life is salvation. You must be born again, made a new creature, adopted into the family of God, before your spiritual life can begin to grow.
The second rule of the spiritual life is fellowship. You must be constantly on guard, watching as it were, as a soldier at his post. Constantly on the lookout for the enemy - any sin, any attitude of indifference, any mis-directed attitude or belief, which might infiltrate your thoughts and thus defeat you where you stand.
Fellowship is maintained through confession and confession is the alarm call when you see the enemy (sin or spiritual failure) in your life.
Once you have been saved, and once you have established your fellowship relationship with God, then maintaining it (fellowship), you are ready to learn, and apply to life what you learn, and grow up in your spiritual life. This requires an attitude of open mindedness and a willingness and a desire, a genuine desire, to advance in your spiritual life.
You set behind you, your old self, your prior attitudes, your old beliefs, your taboos and unmentionable views of life, and, with your eyes newly opened wide, you begin to see the prison that you had been living in, and you begin to experience the freedom, true freedom, which only the spiritual life can provide.
But stubbornness, indifference, impertinence, antagonism, rage, guilt and a thousand more such terms, have to be cut off from you as the ball and chain they are, so you can advance freely in the life which God really designed for you.
You not only have to make that change, but you have to believe it, subscribe to it, and commit your life to it. 'I will do it no more.'
