The Drift Trap

Have you ever found yourself just going through the motions? 

Feeling drained of the energy and passion you once had?

Feeling like you’ve generally been doing all the right things, saying all the right things, experiencing all the right things?

But something just feels off? 

And you find yourself slowly drifting off course?

You feel disconnected; From your relationships, from life, from yourself, from God? 

And you think to yourself like, what happened?

How did I find myself in this place? 

Like I had everything going for me, but now something doesn’t feel right? 

And there’s now this massive gap between  where you are and where you think you should be.

Like a boat floating aimlessly and hopelessly out into the deep.

Particularly with the pandemic, it’s become so easy to get sucked into the never ending day to day grind that we have forgotten to stop and check our bearings every once in a while. 

And you know, maybe it’s because we’ve lost some perspective along the way and just need time to re-focus.

Maybe we’ve made some mistakes that we think there’s no coming back from. 

Maybe we’ve lost some desire to keep pressing on, keep dreaming, keep believing. 

Maybe we’ve become victims of our circumstances and have just become too tired to take the initiative to get back on track. 

Or maybe, if we’re really being honest, we’ve lost some belief in God, because our lives have not been going according to the plans we thought He had for us.

So we’ve taken our eyes off of Him for a moment. 

We’ve “dropped the baton” and stopped running the race marked out for us.

And somehow, we’ve ended up in a place that we never intended to be.

And so we drift, it’s so easy to.

It requires little to no effort, it just happens.

And it can happen to anyone and at any stage of life. 

In Hebrews 2:1 it says, “We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.”

We are urged to not just pay careful attention, but to pay more attention than we normally would in order to avoid the drift. 

The more we drift away from God’s truths without doing anything to correct it, the more we give into the enemy’s lies.  

The more we’ll continue to live feeling disconnected from everything

It can really drain you…

But, how have we allowed things to get so bad? 

How did we find ourselves in this place, where we feel so emotionally, spiritually, physically and relationally drained? 

More importantly, how are we going to get back on track? 

To living out the life that God had called us to live, whatever that may be? 

How are we going to prevent this from happening again?

Can we even prevent it? 

The enemy can’t actually take you down, but he does try to distract you and wear you out. 

He tries to drain you of your passion and your energy. 

He uses external circumstances to try to put you off your game. 

He uses regret, shame, guilt, rejection, discouragement etc to make you feel that there’s no possible way back to God. 

Sometimes this happens over time, and by the time we realise what’s going on, we think we’ve already drifted beyond the point of return or rescue. 

I mean, how could God ever want us after we’ve strayed so far of course? Right? 

The thing is, we can never drift too far away from the love of God, that He can’t rescue us.

He has a habit of meeting us wherever we are. 

Even in our lowly or distant places. 

He’s our anchor. 

He’s the ones whose Grace holds us and helps to steer us back in the right direction.

He’s the one whose love never gives up on us. 

Hebrews 6:19 says, “We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.“

The hope that this verse refers to is Jesus. 

His word and his character are trustworthy, dependable and unfailing. 

Just like a boat will never drift, once securely anchored. 

Even in the toughest of circumstances or on our worst days (not minimising them in the slightest), we can look to Him to be our anchor! 

He truly loves us so dearly and He is more than worth staying on track for. 

And once we try to initiate a daily habit of securely anchoring our lives to and fixing our eyes on Him, we will never drift.