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People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace driven effort people do not gravitate towards 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 towards prayerlessness and dilute ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism. We slide towards godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
DA Carson
July 26th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
The paradox - the human mind cannot grasp the love of God - ever. We can’t get it through our heads that God loves us - we won’t unstand until we’re dead and standing before God. Hey ole buddy! Shoot me an email. I heard you were in Houston and want you to come over!
Sam
June 4th, 2009 at 12:38 am
Very true. very true.
I’d like to link to your blog, if you don’t mind.
thanks and God bless!
August 27th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Very weighty truth. Thank you so much for reminding me.