Are You Drifting?

Do find yourself drifting away from what you know is right?

Do see you all the warning signs and not doing a thing about it?

Here is a thoughtful quote my friend, Pamela Leding, shared recently that will make us think twice:



"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 




And then a wonderful reminder and exhortation from the Scriptures:



"For this very reason, make (every effort) to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they (keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful) in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

 For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."       

 - 2 Peter 1:5-15

In this journey we truly need Christ and His grace, mercy, and forgiveness.



Are you drifting today? 

How can we pray for you?  

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