Life that is aimless is both restless and forceless. How many a trumpet hangs on the walls of society, useless, voiceless and rusty! It has no luster and gives forth no music, and is losing the power to emit sound. What an hour of redemption, when some brave warrior lays hands on the long unused instrument, puts it to his lips and blows a bugle blast!
Young men—you whose life hangs idle, aimless, mute, while the right is battling with the wrong, would to God that some hero-spirit might set you quivering and resounding with the clarion-peal of a holy purpose to serve God and man! No work is so wearisome as doing nothing, and no self-sacrifice is so costly as self-indulgence. Could you wear the “magic skin” which makes sure the gratification of every selfish whim, it would shrink with every new carnal pleasure and so at last crush out all true life.
A.T. Pierson

We talked a bit in Driftology 102 about the difference between drifting and falling overboard.  While falling overboard seems more serious—and it is in the sense that if the person is not rescued promptly the current will take him downstream in a hurry, if not drown him—the drifter is not in much better shape.  He is all the while drifting along with the current, but feels good about himself because he is at least “still in the boat”.

How do we tell if we are drifting?

I like the analogy given by a preacher once of a bunch of boats on a bay.  As long as the boats keep looking at each and monitoring their position by each other, no one will give heed to the fact that every last one of them is being carried along with an unseen undercurrent.  They are still the same distance from each other as 12 hours ago…  Never mind that they all have drifted 2 and a half miles along the coast. Read the rest of this entry »

Brother Steve is making a trip by land from Cartagena, Colombia to northern Argentina, by land.  Along the way he will be stopping to visit some folks who have contacted me from my Spanish website El Cristianismo Primitivo.  It is an unusual opportunity, as not too many folks travel the spine of the Andes by vehicle.  Actually, his route will be mostly along the coast, where roads are not quite so snaky.  But along the way he will be visiting folks in various places, taking the gospel of the kingdom with him as he goes.

Pray!

Luis Alberto Rodriguez, Esteban Mast, Omar Dario Sanchez