"Goodness Is Not The Absence of Badness"

"Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right." I love that quote. Somehow we've bought into the fallacy that the greatest victories in life are the things we've said 'no' to. As though the chief goal in life is to compile a resume of things we've refrained from. Don't get me wrong. It's important to say 'no' to unwise choices. "No" can keep us from a lot of heartache and regret. But if that's all there is, it feels rather empty doesn't it? Does it makes sense that God plants creativity in our soul and then have the entire beauty of our existence be measured by what we can avoid? Seems shallow. To say that my kids will please me most by what they 'don't do' is crazy. Better they discover and dream of a better world...and fall as they run...than to never have left the confines of safety.
We need to reverse the curse. Instead of seeing our holiness solely as the by product of subtraction, we should give heavier weight to the life of addition. It's time that Christianity becomes more known for what we are for instead of what we are against. It's time we obsess less on what we haven't done and more on what we've been called by God to do.
I have things I regret doing. They've crushed me. I can't take those things back. But the real danger is that these things will keep me from a deeper regret, not living out the destiny God calls me to. Greater things are yet to come. My story is not over. Neither is yours. My story. Your story. Matters.
Instead of standing still, may I have the courage to join the movement of God.