This is how you develop...

"We read all of the Bible because what we read in it is not what we immediately know we need. It embeds in the heart and brings forth fruit later."

I don't know who wrote the above quote. Maybe I did. It was on a file on my computer. I seem to vaguely remember it was written by someone on their blog. Anyway, it's a concise and clear way of saying: just read the Bible. Complete.

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Reading the Bible in dedicated, cover-to-cover complete readings is like planting seeds that result in a harvest in time. That harvest is understanding and ability to see more of ourselves and the world around us. Also to discern good and evil. To know which way is up.

Many if not most individuals today are indoctrinated to degrees not seen other than in overtly totalitarian states. Indoctrinated by the culture in general via media and 'entertainment' and also via public 'education.' The indoctrination is not just what to think but also instilling attitudes in us when young that tend to control us when we leave the classroom.

In my day we were told over and over that the world was going to end in one way or another (by nuclear holocaust, by food shortage and overpopulation, by global cooling...). Telling children these things over and over has a horrid effect on decisions they make in life and their attitude towards life in general. It's Satanic. I can't help but envision the looks of demonic pleasure on the faces of the teachers who were dutifully impressing these things into us. Based on it I probably should have become a teacher, but I really didn't think of becoming anything (and my age group where I grew up were all similar). When I was in public school it wasn't the 3 R's, it was how many ways can we destroy these children who should have been aborted anyway? It really was that bad. And what a pathetic waste of time. 13 years of public school and your first few years out of that hell pit you're struggling to recover by reading basic self-help books (or self-confidence books) at 18, 19 years of age. Lucky you can even read that level of material. I was so wasted by the ordeal that when college was proposed to me I said, "That way lies death." Not joking.

We need the armor of God (word and doctrine) and vision of the spiritual battlefield. The younger the better. (Yet better late than never.)