The Undriven Life—The Christian Difference, Part 1, by Carolyn Cote

Your undriven life is a “following” life.

Can you picture the difference? Your driven-life is a pushed life. Someone or something pushes and you react by moving and doing.  Distinctly different is the following-life. Following comes from ahead and you choose to move and follow. Another difference is that your driven-life depends on outside stimuli. A book, a sermon, a parent, a spouse, or, the subtler stimuli of depression, anger, fear or self-loathing.

Very different is the following-life. It listens, hears, chooses to obey and then it is empowered to do. This kind of doing is a rest-filled, graced kind of doing because you have a yoke-mate, Christ. “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” Matt 11:28-29