“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
G. K. Chesterton
Sometimes I think..."I would just like to go with the flow and see where I end up." The only problem is this is anti-biblical thinking. Throughout the Bible God calls us to "intentional" living. Jesus was the perfect and most visible example of this. Everywhere He went He was intentional about who He was with and what He was doing. No matter the circumstances Jesus' message of love and grace and the mightiness of God was consistent.
The Apostle Paul wrote..."And you were dead in the trespasses and sins"..."But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved" (Ephesians 2).
As a child of God we have been placed into a reality that allows us to be intentional. Alive with Christ. If nothing else, I want to be so intentional about praising His name that I don't have time to worry about floating down a river of circumstance.
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