Are You Adrift?

Without a continual check against a known standard [God's Word] we tend to drift [in the flesh].

Can you remember a time when you were floating on an inner tube? Just relaxing and soaking in the sun. Listening to the sounds of birds and nature. Then the next thing you realized you have drifted quite some distance from shore and safety. It happened so gradually that you hadn't noticed you had drifted at all. We will drift just like that in our spiritual walk too if we don't stay tethered to God. When we drift from God we move into dangerous waters and we're no longer safe. I recently had a lesson on how quickly one can drift from missing just a few days of my time with God. The thing is we can get back on course if we want by reattaching our tether to God.

This is why regular, daily times with God and regular attendance at a Bible-preaching, doctrinally sound church are crucial for the survival of every believer. Those who are "forsaking the assembling of [them]selves together" will find that spiritually they are drifting off course. The human heart needs a constant exposure of God's Word to reprove the heart's current direction and show when or if it may have gone off course.