You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.

You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.

If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.

Spend the rest of your life doing what God prepared you to do.

So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual.

Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word.

Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.