If we will not take up discipline, D.A. Carson says in Christianity Today, we will “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.” Someone once said, “The undisciplined is a headache to himself and a heartache to others, and is unprepared to face the stern realities of life.” We are saved by grace through faith. But “faith without works is dead.” Your faith needs to manifest itself in personal resolve, self-discipline, and effort. In Scripture the Christian life is portrayed as: “run the race,” “work out,” “warfare,” “fight,” “yield not,” “press on,” and “take up your cross daily.” Grace is freely given, but must not be neglected. True gifting in any area of life is the result of regular discipline. The disciplined life grows in grace by cooperating with the Holy Spirit.
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 03:02:29 +0000
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