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The Danger of Drifting

BIBLE MEDITATION:

“Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.” - Hebrews 2:1

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

Life is like an ocean…a trackless ocean with winds, currents and waves. We’ll meet ships we never knew were on that ocean and we'll have all kinds of opportunities, heartaches, tears and fears as we sail into a new year on an uncharted sea.
Scholars tell us Hebrews 2:1 refers to the sea—the writer is using a nautical term. He must have spent time at sea, because the phrase “giving more earnest heed” and the word “slip” refer to bringing a ship into the harbor, a difficult and sometimes dangerous task. A ship never just drifts into the harbor. The most skillful part of being a sea pilot is bringing the ship into the harbor. "Let them slip" literally means drift away. You have to be careful when you enter the harbor that you don't end up on the rocks or drift past the harbor.
The worst thing that could happen to us this year is that we just drift through it—live an aimless life—letting this year “happen” to us rather than charting a course and getting into God's appointed harbor. The winds of worldliness, the tides of circumstance, and the currents of the old nature are determined to cause you to drift.

ACTION POINT:

You will drift unless you decide not to drift. You must have an anchor. You need a fixed direction. It’s important, because drifting is one of the easiest things in the world to do.

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Heaven on Earth, Obedience vs Disobedience

THOUGHTS ON THE GARDEN OF EDEN:  OBEDIENCE AND DISOBEDIENCE

Suggested Scripture reading is Genesis chapter’s 1-3

It was Heaven on earth in the Garden of Eden.  Adam and Eve were in the direct presence of God and life there was Blissful.

Genesis 2: 15-17

15 ¶ Then the Lord God took the man, and put

him into the garden of Eden, that he might 1dress

it, and keep it.

16 And the Lord God 1commanded the man, saying,

2Thou shalt eat freely of every tree of the garden,

17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil,

thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou

eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death.

Genesis 3:1-6

1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any

beast of the field, which the Lord God had made:

and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God indeed

said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We eat

of the fruit of the trees of the garden.

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst

of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it,

neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4 Then the aserpent said to the woman, Ye shall

not die at all,

5 But God doth know that when ye shall eat

thereof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be

as gods, knowing good and evil.

6 So the woman (seeing that the tree was good

for meat, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a

tree to be desired, to get knowledge) took of the fruit

thereof, and did beat, and gave also to her husband

with her, and he did eat.

And so Adam and Eve disobeyed God and immediately lost there covering of innocence, and God of course knew it and began to search them out to find out why?  Well as the story goes satan deceived and charmed Eve into distrusting God.  Then came the disobedience and God banned them from the Garden of Eden, Heaven on earth and out of his divine presence.

Had they not been deceived, but instead believed obeyed and listened to God, they and us would be still in that Garden and Heaven on earth today!

My thoughts are this:  Trust God and obey him!!  The more obedient we are to Him, The more of His presence He will give to us.