Thursday, November 02, 2006

Drifting...

Something to think about from Dr. D. A. 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

1 comment:

  1. Very true! And the awful thing is we do it every so slowly, almost imperceptibly, by a thought here, a decision there, inching away from our true plumb line.

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