Gold Nugget 247 - Drifting With the Stream

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      If a man does not hate evil, it is certain he loves not good.  Those twin precepts are like stems from one root.  What a man loves and follows shows what he will be; but what he hates shows what he is. …

      True, any real love for goodness, desire after righteousness and holiness, shows a man not yet hopelessly bad.  But there is a weak approval of good, with no earnest effort to follow it, which only amounts to self-condemnation.  To recognize the right, true, good, kind, honourable path, and yet not choose it, is even a distinct step downward.

      Power to say “No” is the decisive test of strength of moral character.  Good, if followed at all, must be pursued actively – uphill.  But to go wrong you need but yield, and drift with the stream.

The Pulpit Commentary, Psalms p. 276, Psalms 36:4, (E. R. Conder, W. Clarkson)

Gold Nugget 247

Drifting With the Stream

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