Philippians 3:10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection….
I have to confess…I drift. I’d like to say that I am firmly anchored every day in the truth of God’s Word, convinced of the worth of His grace and broken by my own dark heart. But I drift. It’s not to say I don’t love God and His Son. I do. But even in the midst of spiritual activity like bible study, message prep and counseling…I drift. The discovery of this fact often comes as a surprise to me. I wake up one morning and I feel distanced from God–I’m far away. Of course a true drift of soul takes weeks. That’s always true for me.
Before I know what’s happened I’ve drifted from really knowing God. Really enjoying him. And like most, I don’t drift because I’ve started shooting heroin into my eye or because I am too busy with my sex trafficking business. My drifting almost never has anything to do with bad things. I drift because of good things.
I have to be more careful of TV and sports and books than I do of vodka, adultery and porn. That’s not to say I don’t guard myself from those things that can take me down fast. But it’s the things that take me down slow that I must beware of. They cause me to drift. And when I drift, I don’t notice.
