Lazy River

Nº 318

August 27, 2024

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about matters, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers. - John Owen

I spent an afternoon with my grandchildren enjoying a local water park. Besides a giant slide and a splash pool, the key feature was a lazy river. The lazy river looped around an island with water jets forcing the flow in a strong clockwise direction. I could stand up allowing the current to run past me, but if I relaxed, I’d easily drift away.

The writer of Hebrews probably never spent time in a lazy river but was aware of the dangers of drifting away. “We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.” (Hebrews 2:1)

The writer of Hebrews understood the powerful and seductive force of a spiritual lazy river. If we do not stand against the flow of this world, the currents will quickly move us away from safety and into dangerous undertows.

So, how do we fight the tendency to drift away? We must pay more careful attention to what we have heard. Safety and security are found as we go back to the simple truth we have heard – that God loves us despite our selfish rebellion, died in our place, and offers us a forever relationship with him.

Excelsior,

Dan Bolin

Author & President

Refueling in Flight Ministries