If you’re a professional driver, drifting is both incredibly cool and amazing to watch.

Most other contexts, drifting is not cool.

The thing I find interesting about drift in life is that in life drift never drifts toward good or our intended goal.

Most people’s new year’s resolution includes getting back into shape. And the plan works great for a few days or even weeks. And then the temptation to drift enters. And when drift happens, drift never leads us to the gym or to the track. Drift always leads to the couch.

We decide we need to eat a healthier diet. That’s a great plan. We all should. And things go well for a few weeks, but then the temptation to drift enters. And again, when drift happens, it never leads to more carrots and celery sticks. It usually looks like a cheeseburger and fries and a milkshake, and pizza, and ice cream. I know. I’ve been there and done that. All in one sitting!

Same thing with relationships with our loved ones, our friends. This also applies to our spiritual walk with God. When drift occurs, drift never takes us closer to God.

Here’s the thing about drift. Drift happens. So don’t feel bad when drift happens.

The key is not that drift happens, but that you get back on the plan and correct the drift….get the drift? The thing that determines whether we achieve our goals is not that drift happens but what you do once you drift. The ones that succeed get back on track, get back to healthy habits, get back to the things that lead to health. And the ones that don’t succeed…well…they’re still drifting.

Don’t feel bad that drift happens. When drift happens, get back with the program.

Growth, maturity, health is a journey. On this journey, drift will happen. The key to getting to our goal is that when drift occurs, we get back on the program and stay the course.

Get the drift?

Spiritual journey…our “walk” with God…is not an event but a journey. And since God is infinite and since we are finite, our journey with God will be an eternal journey…there will never be a time or a moment when we will be able to fully comprehend or appreciate the fullness of God’s awesome glory, God’s limitless sovereignty, God’s amazing majesty.

Since our “walk” with God is a journey, and since we will never “arrive” at our destination, whether we just started our “walk” with God or whether you have been “walking” with God for decades, we find ourselves in the same situation: we are further along than we used to be, and we have a limitless love and grace yet to explore.

Since our “walk” with God is a journey, what matters is not how far along you are on this journey. What matters most is that you are heading in the right direction and that you keep going.

So find your true North in Christ…and keep on keeping on!

Ever feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, frustrated asking forgiveness for the same sins over and over and over and over again?

Every once in a while, I might figure out a new way to sin, but most of my sins are very predictable – lust, jealousy, anger, pride, etc.

There are times I wonder if God ever gets to the point where he says, “You again? This again?! How many times are we going to have to do this?”

Showers. I like showers. They make me feel clean. I like the feeling of clean.

I shower regularly because I get dirty regularly. I don’t do particularly dirty things that get me dirty like working in the yard, or chopping down trees, or marching through the swamps.

It’s just living in this world, I get dirty just by being in it.

Wouldn’t it be dumb if we ever said, “Dirty again? How many times are we going to have to shower?!”

Well…for everyone’s sake…everyday.

That’s what daily prayer time is. It’s a daily cleansing from our sins. Most of us don’t go out of our ways finding new and creative ways to sin. Just by going through the day, living in this world, and being human – we sin every day. And because we sin every day, we need to be forgiven every day.

Thank God when we ask for forgiveness, God forgives us every time. There’s no ceiling or limit to how many times God will forgive us.

“As far as the east is from the west, so far has he (God) removed our transgressions from us” (Psalm 103:12).

The dumbest thing we could do is not pray for forgiveness because as long as we’re in this world, we’re going to get dirty.

Being forgiven. I like being forgiven. Being forgiven makes me feel clean. I like the feeling of clean.