God personally guides us and instructs us along the way, watching over us with tender care, and providing us with vital and practical instruction that revives the soul, makes us wise, gives us joy, and brings us light. The law of God is perfect, reviving the soul, and the statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. However, we must not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding, but rather be transformed by the renewing of our minds, living rationally, sensibly, and thoughtfully, and being revived and made wise through the law of God.
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