Monday, August 16, 2010

People Do Not Drift Towards Holiness

Here is a quote from Dan Carson::

"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."
— D.A. Carson


...There is not a lot to add to this

...Here are a few things to think about::
~Are we drifting towards compromise?
~Are we drifting towards disobedience?
~Are we drifting towards godlessness?

...Lord I pray for grace-driven efforts that lead us towards godliness, prayer, obedience, and delight in YOU!
...May we find our complete and utter satisfaction in YOU and in YOU alone!

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