The Deadly Danger of Drifting

I mis-placed my grandson last week! I was coming out of Best Buy with Will, my five year old grandson, and when I turned around to say something to him, he was gone. I knew he was not far, but I could not see him. I walked back into the store but did not see him there, but when I walked back into the parking lot he was walking toward me with tears in his eyes. He had followed the wrong man out of the store and did not realize it until he ended up at the wrong pickup.

This is one of the ways we lose sight of God as Christians, we follow the wrong leader. Dr. John Allen calls this The Deadly Danger of Drifting - not rejecting salvation, but neglecting our salvation. It becomes easy to drift away from the things of God when we become distracted by the worldly culture around us. We drift away from God when we ignore the Bible, prayer, worship, and fellowship. We drift when we don’t take seriously the commands and warnings of God.

After Will’s little scare, he held tightly to my hand every time we were out of the truck: thus assuring he was not going to drift away again. Dr. Allen says, “you are as close to God right now as you want to be.” Are you holding tightly to God’s hand? Or are you dawdling along a few steps behind the Lord, watching all the things of a depraved society and not paying attention to God’s lead? Somewhere in life we all look up and realize that we are not standing next to our Lord, and we run crying to him for forgiveness - just read Psalm 51 for King David’s version of this concept.

This thought was inspired by Dr. David Allen who is teaching this week on the theme, "Engaging Our Culture." Dr. Allen is a dean at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas.

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