May 18 2011
Let’s Not Drift
Josh Etter quoted D. A. Carson about us mistaking we can “drift” towards holiness.
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.
It’s easy to be on the sidelines and watching other Christians do God’s work. I need to get involved. I need to take a bigger role. I need to spend more time.
I need to try harder!
God’s grace is a given. But to gain His rewards, I must run to get them!
Then he said, ‘I know! I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones. Then I’ll have room enough to store all my wheat and other goods. And I’ll sit back and say to myself, “My friend, you have enough stored away for years to come. Now take it easy! Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
“But God said to him, ‘You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?’
“Yes, a person is a fool to store up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God.”
Luke 12:18-21
