Understanding the concepts of objective and subjective things is difficult, but the real challenge to most of us is to keep the right balance of these two things in our daily lives. Let us compare it to someone learning to drive. No matter how many books the person may have read about the mechanics of a car and the right way to drive, practice is necessary to drive well. The first time the student sits down at the wheel, everything about the use of the accelerator, the brake, the gear shift and all the other buttons is unfamiliar. Practice is necessary to learn how to use them together. But the number one fundamental rule of driving is to keep your eyes on the road. It is a simple concept, but it is difficult to do while concentrating on the other skills of shifting, braking and so forth. In our Christian lives it is similar, in that we need to keep the focus always on Christ as our object, while at the same time allowing the Holy Spirit to direct the ongoing work in us. In this way our lives will be a light and testimony of Christ, not ourselves. No difficult mental activity is necessary for anyone to have a single eye on Christ and a willing heart which allows the Spirit of God to order their lives, but some teaching may be helpful.
D. C. Buchanan