Drifting away

Chandler and I landed in California last night and Chelsea picked up up from the airport... We were so happy to see her! 

Of course with the time difference I woke up at 5 am!  As I was studying Hebrews this morning I ran across this illustration that really hits home the concept of drifting. I thought it tied in with the message from Hebrews 1 yesterday. 

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If we do not give the more earnest heed, we will drift away.  Drifting is something that happens quite automatically when we are not anchored to anything solid; if we are not "anchored" in the superiority of Jesus, we will drift with the currents of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

One doesn't have to do anything to simply drift away; most Christian regress comes from a slow drifting, not from a sudden departure.

An ungodly farmer died, and they discovered in his will that he had left his farm to the Devil.  In the court, they didn't quite know what to do with it -- how do you give a farm to the Devil?  Finally, the judge decided: "The best way to carry out the wishes of the deceased is to allow the farm to grow weeds, the soil to erode, and the house and barn to rot.  In our opinion, the best way to leave something to the Devil is to do nothing." 

We can leave our lives to the Devil the same way - doing nothing, drifting with whatever currents will drive us.

Pastor clay 

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