Train yourself to be godly.                                                                                                    1 Timothy 4:7

The pursuit of holiness is not a downhill stroll on a pleasant afternoon, an easy Sunday jaunt upon which one can hardly help but progress. It is an uphill traverse upon treacherous terrain!  It’s a workout!  

You cannot advance along this path in whimsical folly.  You will not one day awake to find you’ve tumbled into it’s tidy end.  This journey is one of blood and grit!  Of muscle and sinew, of sweat and determination, of persistence, effort, and down-right force of will!

Look around you!  All of life today belies the notion that we could ever ‘fall’ into holiness.  Without the work, THIS is what we become:  degenerate, immoral, loathsome, angry, selfish, lazy, conceited, shallow, foolish, vain, petty, deluded, and self-seeking!  

That path, that’s the one we stroll merrily, carelessly upon.  

Something more, something better, something more lofty, noble, worthwhile, and eternal, now that, that takes work.