You may find as you are reading the Old Book, and that quiet Spirit is talking to you, you are very apt to find that your life is down here on this lower level, and the Book is up here on the higher level. There are two different levels. And then the temptation is, by nice religious talk, to pull the Book down to where you want to live. And then all the power goes out of your life. Obedience means this - that by your own set will, and by God's grace, you pull your life up to the level of the Book , in a simple, sane, wholesome way.
Nobody is so sane as the man swayed by the Holy Spirit.
If you will pull the habit of your life up to the level of the Holy Spirit's voice in the Book, and in your heart, you will have no bother about the rest. The third trait of faith is expectancy . Faith is not blind. It sees the difficulties, but it sees Jesus greater. It goes to the top of Carmel, and pitches its tent, if need be, and it looks and looks and looks again, for that man to come, for that money to loosen, for that health to come.