"We Drift Toward Compromise..."

"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

This quote by D.A. Carson stopped me in my tracks. Go ahead and read it again. Have you been drifting toward compromise? Have you convinced yourself that you have been "liberated" when in reality you are sliding toward godlessness and disobedience? One word sums up this quote: Wow.