To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
God does not 'love' us without liking us.
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.
The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.
The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.