The Places We Convince Ourselves Don't Count
You didn't lose your convictions and then act—you acted, and then issued your convictions a permit.
Ezekiel 8:12 (ESV)
12 Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”