ACTIVITY:
RELIGIOUS; SPIRITUAL GOALS

It is possible to have motion without progress, and this describes much of the activity among Christians today. It is simply lost motion.

In God there is motion, but never wasted motion; He always works toward a predetermined end. Being made in His image, we are by nature constituted so that we are justifying our existence only when we are working with a purpose in mind. Aimless activity is beneath the worth and dignity of a human being. Activity that does not result in progress toward a goal is wasted; yet most Christians have no clear end toward which they are striving. On the endless religious merry-go-round they continue to waste time and energy, of which, God knows, they never had much and have less each hour.

Genesis 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 9:22, 23; Philippians 3:13, 14; Hebrews 12:1, 2

Born After Midnight, 101.