I’ll never forget the early days when I was learning to surf. If there was any promise of surf I was out there. This particular instance I was surfing alone before work. As I caught my last wave and paddled in I remember walking up the beach only to realize that nothing looked familiar. I didn’t recognize anything! Not a condo, beach marker, lifeguard stand…nothing. Somehow amidst my fun of catching waves I had drifted. The problem was that I didn’t know if I had drifted up the beach or down the beach. So I walk a few block in one direction and then another until I spotted something I recognized. This day I learned the lesson of keeping my eye on a fixed object while I was in the water.
Here’s my point. When your mission and heart is to reach people who are far from Jesus and point them to life it is easy to wake up one day and realize that you have drifted. Maybe you drifted in your mission. Maybe you drifted in you convictions. Maybe you drifted from your purpose.
Hebrews 2:1 says, “we must listen very carefully to the truth we have heard, or we may drift away from it.”
Catch my drift?
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Ken added these kind words on Nov 04 07 at 9:04 amAwesome. This is a such a simple post, but it has a profound message.
Losing your position while out in the surf is a common experience. So is losing you position while living in the world of the lost. We can’t stay away from that world because of this fear, but we have to stay focused on where/who we came from.
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