Thoughts on Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 1.3G3

[The drawback of “putting one’s heart before God” is that God will not tell the sinner “what ‘he’ wants to hear”.

The virtue of “placing one’s heart before God” is that the person comes closer to contextualizing ‘his’ actions through both thinkdivine and lawessential.   Only by aligning oneself ( that is, one’s actions2(consciencefree1)) ) with thinkdivine, does one start to see the consequences of one’s own and other’s actions ( that is, lawessential ).]