The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

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.

Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.

God does not 'love' us without liking us.

Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.