October 30, the danger of drifting.

Therefore, we must pay closer attention to what we have heard lest we drift away from it.

Hebrews 2.1.

We all know people that this has happened to.

There's no urgency, no vigilance, no focused,

listening or considering or fixing of their eyes on Jesus,

and the result has not been a standing still, but a drifting away. That is the point here. There is

no standing still. The life of this world is not a lake. It is a river, and it is flowing downward to destruction.

If you do not listen earnestly to Jesus and consider him daily and fix your eyes on him hourly,

then you will not stand still. You will go backward. You will float away from Christ. Drifting is a deadly thing

in the Christian life and the remedy for it, according to Hebrews 2-1, is pay close attention to what you have heard. That is, consider what God

is saying in His Son Jesus. Fix your eyes on what God is saying and doing in the Son of God,

Jesus Christ. This is not a hard swimming stroke to learn. The only thing that keeps us from

swimming against sinful culture is not the difficulty of the stroke, but our sinful desire

to go with the flow. Let's not complain that God has given us a hard job.

Listen, consider, fix the eyes.

This is not what you would call a hard job description.

In fact, it is not a job description. It is a solemn invitation

to be satisfied in Jesus so that we do not get lured downstream by deceitful desires.

If you are drifting today,

one of the signs of hope that you are born again

is that you feel pricked for this.

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