How People Drift

Can you drift towards holiness? Will you faithfully pursue what is good, true and beautiful? No. Never. Not on your own in your own flesh or power. One of my professor's in seminary D.A. Carson has a wonderful quote for all of us to remember and consider with sober-minded humility when it comes to how we as people drift:

“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, For the Love of God, Volume Two(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 1999), 23.

May the Lord be gracious to us and help us to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ more and more as we pursue what honors Him together according to His Word (2 Pet. 3:18).