Thought

“Have you ever faced this kind of moment – a moment filled with opportunity and yet you let it slip away? Have you ever known you should go to the right, but you went to the left? Has it ever been in your power to do good, but you chose instead to do nothing? You didn’t choose to do evil; you just chose not to get involved – you chose to be neutral, to be a nonparticipant, to do nothing. For years the dominant focus of Christianity has been on the elimination of sin from our lives. Yet on the whole, I find the choices  between good and evil to be pretty clear in the minds and hearts of those in relationship with Christ. It is not here that we become paralyzed. Once I am willing to turn from my sin and live a life that honors God, what do I do next? How do I distinguish between all the good choices in the world?…We have put so much emphasis on avoiding evil that we have become virtually blind to the endless opportunities for doing good. We have defined holiness through what we separate ourselves from rather than what we give ourselves to. I am convinced the great tragedy is not the sins that we commit, but the life that we fail to live.” – Erwin McManus