Drifting - To be carried slowing away by air or current.
I never thought that I would be the Christian kid that went to college and drifted from Christ. Never was it a conscience decision, but little exceptions that caused me to drift far from what I was raised to be. Throughout high school I was warned of the people that would directly oppose my belief and cause me to rethink what I stood for. Now I know that the people that were in direct opposition were not the ones that I should have been on the look out for. It was the ones who did not directly oppose my beliefs. In fact it was the ones who also claimed Christianity. I began to see them making small decisions that I thought harmless, so I made them too. Slowly each decision I made changed the way I saw the world. I no longer looked at the people around me with the love of Christ, but with a bitterness towards their being. A person can tell exactly when they stop walking in the spirit, and it happened to be when I stopped loving the people that were placed around me.
The adventure that I thought I was going on, was different from what I experienced. I look back now on my first year in college and see the creeping in of the one who came to destroy. Darkness did not come by abruptly turning out the lights, but by slowly dimming them till I could no longer see the light that I once walked in so faithfully. Christ clearly warns us of the destroyer, that he is clever and will come in not with a grand entrance, but through creeping in through the cracks. I was ready for direct opposition, I was ready to argue with the atheists about their worldview. But I was not prepared for the smallest of decisions to turn me from walking in the Spirit daily.
A walk with Christ is not easy, never has it been taught that it is. It is a battle, that must be fought daily. A relationship with Christ is so beautiful that no matter how far you think you have drifted from Christ, He is ready to draw you back into his arms the very second you ask for forgiveness.
"For this reason we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it." Hebrews 2:1
