We must pay more attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. (Hebrews 2:1)
I am easily distracted. That's a lot of what I've been writing about so far, because I feel like that's where I've just come from. I know a decent amount of theology, but somehow it doesn't permeate my consciousness to the extent that I live out of it day by day. I know God is for me. I know that His love for me is so all-consuming, so passionate that He went to the cross for me. I know that if I don't hide myself in Christ that I will not be able to stand against Satan's schemes. I know it.
But it's just so hard to live it. It's so hard to have the discipline to live out of these incredible truths each day. Unless I make a conscious effort, each day I lose heart. Unless I decide each day when I wake up to follow Jesus, I fail to. C.S Lewis was once asked why he needed to continually be filled with the Holy Spirit - “I leak” was his response. How true.
This losing of heart is what Hebrews 2 calls 'drifting'. The problem with drifiting? We drift away. If I do nothing then I will move further away from the life God has called me to. I need to not just know what I have heard, I need to continually "pay close attention" to it. I need to continually soak myself in the presence of God, continually soak myself in God's word, and because of the way I work - regularly write about it.
That's what I'm trying to do here. Maybe it'll be beneficial for someone else, but mostly it's useful for me to spend some time thinking about what God's been showing me.