It's Easy to Drift From God
Every summer when I was a kid, our
family would travel to Florida to go to the beach for a week. One day, I climbed
on my inflatable raft and closed my eyes. The gentle waves rocked me like a
baby, and I didn’t realize the current was pulling me out to sea.
Then a wave splashed me in the face.
When I looked up, I was shocked to discover I had drifted so far away I could
barely see the shore. The current pulled me away so gradually that I didn’t notice
it was happening. I floated away because I wasn’t paying attention.
We drift away from God the same way.
We quit paying attention to Him, and little by little we move away. The writer of Hebrews
warns, “For this reason, we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift
away from it” (Hebrews 2:1).
When we quit talking with God and
reading His Word each day, it’s inevitable that we’ll gradually drift away from
Him. It happens so slowly it’s almost unnoticeable. Then something happens that
upsets the raft and when we look up, we see how far away we are.
When I realized how far I was from
shore, I didn’t get back to the beach by drifting there. I had to swim against the current and paddle my way back.
To return to God, you must make an effort to get close to the Lord again. Seek
His face. Talk to Him throughout the day. Meditate on His Word. Make sure you
are in Christian fellowship. Before you know it, you’ll be back at the shore.
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