Our modern culture is like a 24/7 convenience store. We can get anything we want 24/7 and at the push of a button. We can end up thinking that everything about life should be easy, be it marriage, self-discipline or even our salvation. The illusion of ease shouldn’t fool us. Working toward our salvation is challenging work.
Struggling toward salvation takes prayer, sacrifice, and constant vigilance. Do I sense that the living of my faith in today’s world is easy? If so, I’m probably not living it well. Where have I avoided the narrow road of holiness? Am I too attached to food, clothes, or the opinions of others?
How well ordered are your passions?
Help me to see, Lord, so that I can shake off mediocrity in my spiritual life and make the most of the time You give me.
Smitten With Goodness 
Re. “Working toward salvation”… I’m citing Ephesians 2:8-9 “Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.” Ephesians 2:9 NLT Or…in the King James Version… “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV
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