I ran that stop sign every morning on the way to work. Daily. For the past 23 years.
I didn’t zoom through it, but eased on by with a quick glance for traffic and then a merge into it. A slow-go instead of a stop-the-wheels.
I treated the red stop sign as a yellow yield sign.
For 23 years.
And then I retired.
And then one day, I yielded at the stop sign, waved at the policeman watching, and ran it once again. Just like I had always done.
The lights flashed, the siren squawked, and I got a warning ticket.
Oops.
I hadn’t even thought about it I had done it for so long.
Sometimes we need to get caught.
"Do not deceive yourselves by just listening to his word; instead, put it into practice"
(James 1:22 Good News Version).
"Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves"
(James 1:22 King James Version).