"People do not drift toward holiness."
Apart from a 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
We do not drift toward holiness. We must pursue holiness and righteousness. We must pursue God!
"With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!" Psalm 119:10
"Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart." Psalm 119:2
"The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him." Lamentations 3:25
-d. a. carson
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