Gold Nugget 247 - Drifting With the Stream
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
