Everything I do should be in obedience and in the power of God. Yes, I am saying even the mundane stuff.

If I go off and do things on my own — I am in fact testing God at some level. It may not be jumping off a cliff to prove to others that he will save me. But it is taking things into my hands, expecting him to work — so in fact testing to see if he will work.

This is not over-spiritualizing. It is just the opposite — it is a continual relationship with God through the spirit, not rituals that might help the flesh feel good.

If a child is obedient to his parent, the parent may ask him to go potty, he goes, and then he comes back and lets them know he is finished. An older child may not need the reminder — but they were trained. And because they were trained, it does not mean they can then suddenly do everything on their own, whenever they want.

That training by the Holy Spirit through our spirit, to which our soul is obedient, is sanctification. But it still does not mean independence.