Weighty Carson

Missions Blog has a D.A. Carson quote I thought worth sharing.

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.

How true. I guess that's why they call it "the walk" forward and "backsliding" when we drift away. What God does for us, He often does through us. That is not to say it is not all grace, it is. But it takes a step of faith. Then another one. Then another...