Life is really a balance between protecting ourselves from bad (harm) and achieving our aims – the problem is, if we are in one or the other mode, we cannot simultaneously be focused on the other direction (as one is a forward, the other often backward, or at least freeze mechanism) so the only way we can bridge this very important simultaneously necessary dichotomy, is to a. listen to God’s advice, so we b. have his protection and c. achieve his (which is really our, higher) aims