When your steering wheel is crooked while driving straight, your car is likely out of alignment. You may learn to compensate for your wonky drive, and do nothing about it. Life is too full of clamoring matters. But, when your tires start rapidly wearing out on one side, you’ll probably give it attention. Now, you’ve cost yourself some real money.
Throughout life God will give you gentle signs that yours is sliding out of alignment in a given area. This can range from sleeping, rising, eating, working, resting, engaging and retreating from friends, engaging with God and sharing Him, earning money and saving or giving it. All kinds of areas. Like many, you may think, “I’ll get to this later.” Indeed, “later” comes, but usually with much higher costs.
The beautiful joy of living out of your new identity is you can relax. No need for shame-driven defensiveness. Early-on, you can actually accept that this or that area of your life is out of whack. You can enjoy lower-cost, freeing corrections all through your life.