We must labor to keep our union with Christ in front of us day after day or we will drift. To return to the sailboat analogy with which we began this chapter—what does it take for a boat to drift away? Nothing. If it is not anchored or tied down, it will drift away. “Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away” (Heb. 2:1). As the hymn says: O to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be; Let that grace now, like a fetter, bind my wand’ring heart to thee. Prone to wander—Lord, I feel it—prone to leave the God I love: Here’s my heart, O take
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