Live Deliberately

LOVE this. This sums up the whole "deliberate pursuit of holiness in light of grace" better than most anything I've seen.

Snippet;

"I talk a lot about "deliberate" living. This is why. "If you don't seek what is good on purpose, you will gravitate to what is bad by default." ... And this is exactly why we are saved by grace, taking NO credit for our own salvation, and are still commanded to "seek what is good", meaning, that it's OK to be concerned with "externals"!

Modesty on purpose, or immodesty by default....
good books on purpose, or bad ones by default...
virtue on purpose, or vulgarity by default.
(And while we're on the subject, building relationships on purpose, or TV junkies by default.)

The "default" is the baseness of our nature...that "flesh that wars within me" that Paul and all of us wrestle with.This isn't legalism. When Paul said, "Whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure...if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, THINK ON THESE THINGS."

Paul was saying,"LIVE DELIBERATELY." "LEAN TOWARD WHAT IS GOOD AND NOBLE."

Read this in it's entirety here.