Accidental holiness? Nope.

D. A. Carson wrote:

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 indiscipine 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.
(from FOR THE LOVE OF GOD)

Let us press on!
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Tuesdays with Thomas Manton…

LET ME NOT WANDER. Psalm 119:10 says,

10 With my whole heart I seek you;
let me not wander from your commandments!

Puritan divine Thomas Manton says, manton
“God’s children are a generation of seekers. They find hereafter, but now they seek. Their great business is to be seeking after God, more ample and full communion with Him.” He further warns us, “It is a high piece of spiritual idolatry, to lean upon our own understanding, and think to carry even the ordinary affairs of any day without asking counsel from God, and then His blessing.”

Lord, let me not wander today.
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