Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
God did not make us to float lazily along with the trends in pop media, like a jellyfish, drifting this way and that way with the currents of pop culture. No, he made us to be dolphins who cut against the currents of pop culture. And this jellyfish-and-dolphin metaphor comes up when we talk about cultural pressures like those of cussing and using crude language, or on the currents of lust. The Bible warns us against cultural drift into crude joking and lust.
Drifting???
The topic of this question from a 24-year-old young woman named Haley.
“Pastor John, thank you for the APJ podcast and all that it has given to me over the years. I’m writing because I want to understand Hebrews 2:1–3 better, specifically the warnings about the dangers of drifting away — not in outright rebellion, but in neglect, and the slow, imperceptible process of losing grip on the greatness of Christ. Lately, I feel this happening in my own heart. I’m not resisting Christ, but my affections for him feel duller, my prayers weaker, my longing for his presence fainter. It’s not that I’ve abandoned the truth, but I can sense the current of the world tugging at me. I don’t want to wake up one day and find myself far downstream, wondering how I got there. How does this drifting happen? And more importantly, how do I fight it? How can I rekindle the wonder of salvation and anchor myself more firmly in Christ before the pull becomes too strong?”
