Some great thoughts this morning from Joel Ellis
Life is like swimming in a river. You cannot simply tread water and stay in one place. You are either exerting yourself in order to swim upstream, against the current, or you are being driven downstream by the forces that surround you. We are becoming more like Christ or less like him, every day. We are resisting the flesh or relenting to it, dying to our sin or dying from it.
Take an honest assessment. Which direction are you moving in right now? If your spiritual health was measured by your habits, your friendships, your thought patterns, what would be the diagnosis? Are you becoming more like Jesus, or are you moving farther away from him by small concessions, worldly distractions, and unholy comfort?
We are in the midst of a spiritual war, and the Devil crouches at the door. Am I strengthening my defenses or undermining them? Am I doing the things that will help me to be morally and spiritually strong, or am I becoming comfortable and complacent in the midst of moral and spiritual dangers?