grace-driven
“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
What does “grace-driven” effort really look like? I’ve been deeply pondering that question for quite some time…I feel like I’m constantly straddling the lines between legalism/laziness/self-condemnation/guilt/etc… I guess in the end it is a constant surrender of the heart in all that you do. :3
