The Life Of A Drifter

‘First of all, it was delivered in person by the Master, then accurately passed on to us by those who heard it from him. All the while God was validating it with gifts through the Holy Spirit, all sorts of signs and miracles, as he saw fit.’

So we must be very careful, as drifting can just as easily lead us away from the Lord as to the Lord, unless we are ever diligent. We are told that the ancient message is just as valid today and is being shown around us in all kinds of signs – if we will but just look at them. It seems that the problem today is we have been desensitized to all things Godly because we have been justifying our actions for so long we now believe them. And one of the biggest problems the church has today is the number of false teachers we have teaching all kinds of profane things about the Word of God.

One of them the other day actually said, ‘God wants you to have a big bank account!’ I wonder if this is why Jesus told the rich young man to give away all he had so he could follow Jesus.

God knows that we are weaker than we are willing to admit. He knows that if most of us became very wealthy, our focus would be turned away from God so we could take care of our fortunes. So, does God really want us to have big bank accounts?

Now, let’s talk about …

2. WHAT CAUSES US TO DRIFT

One of the easiest ways to drift away is by not reading your Bible every day. You get kind of busy and decide to put it off until tomorrow. Too often, ‘tomorrow’ turns into next month or next year, and the Bible ends up catching more dust than it does interest.

You need food to live. If you didn’t eat, your body would slowly decay and die. You don’t want that to happen, so you eat. And you would never, not even for a moment, choose to just stop eating, would you?

Yet, the Word of God is our spiritual food. It keeps us alive spiritually. It is as needed to our spirits, as our food is to our bodies. So, why would we choose to go without it?

And another reason we drift away from God is that we don’t really pray. Oh, we might utter a few words every now and then, but we don’t really pray. We think praying is giving God a quick holler when we are in trouble. But when things are going smoothly, we forget all about talking to Him.

Picture yourself standing in the middle of quicksand, and you are slowly sinking. You know that you cannot help yourself and you know you are going to die – by suffocation. How scary is that? What do you do? Nothing, for there is nothing you can do to help yourself.

And then you see a person come up and stand next to the quicksand. What do you do? Let me tell you what you would and would not do.

··· You would scream loudly to get his attention.

··· You would not ignore him as if he didn’t exist.

··· You would cry out to him to save you.

··· You would not refuse to talk to him.

··· You would tell him exactly what you wanted – to be saved.

··· And if he said he could help save you, you wouldn’t convince yourself he couldn’t.

People are like that man in quicksand. And that quicksand is like the pull the devil has on us through this sinful world. We are totally unable to do anything at all to help ourselves. The only thing we can do is rely on someone else. It makes no sense for the man who is sinking to have a pride-filled and stubborn heart, does it?