It makes much difference whether we come to God as a criminal or a child. . . Our praying must be buttressed by holy living.
It has always been true that holiness is hard. It may have been C. S. Lewis who said that the way of holiness hadn't been tried and found wanting but found hard and left untried.
I recently was asked why there is no real difference between a decent moral pagan and the average church goer. At the time I thought the question telling but I could not think of the fundamental issue. The reality however is that if the is no discern-able difference between a moral pagan and a moral churchgoer then there probably IS no difference.
Until we accept into our behavior the implications of the truth that the WAY is narrow that leads to life, then we are In fact deceived. And until that changes we will lead a mediocre attempt at faith, And nothing we do will satisfy.
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