Hope Road

This is a quote I posted on my Xanga awhile ago. I ran into it again somewhere, and it’s so good I thought I’d post it here. We deceive ourselves in so many ways, don’t we?

“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

Filed under: Christianity, Struggles on May 17th, 2007