That is one reason why our blessed Lord is always dead against the life of drift.
He condemns it in a score of instances.
Think how He describes the days of Noah.
According to Genesis the earth was full of violence...
But our Lord says nothing about violence as the precursor of calamity.
He says that in the days before the flood men were eating, drinking, merrymaking, marrying...
And then, suddenly, the flood came.
Noah was a man of action, of swift decision, of determination.
The others went drifting on from day to day...
Thoughtless...
Heedless...
Irresistible.
It is the Lord's warning against the life of drift as leading to disaster, and He is always insisting upon that.
The man of the one talent took no risks.
He forfeited everything for doing nothing.
The man who built his house upon the sand found that in the drift was his destruction.
The man who worshipped God today and tomorrow was the slave of mammon was intolerable in the eyes of Jesus.
Christ calls for action, for decision, for determination of the will.
If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out...
If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off.
Nobody knew better than our Savior that we are here not to drift but to decide if we are ever to have the music and the crown.
~George H. Morrison~