It is well to note, too, that a drifting ship is always a danger to the other shipping.
Every captain would corroborate that.
You can chart a quicksand or a reef, and having them on the chart you can avoid them...
But nobody can chart a drifting ship; it may be on you in a moment in the night.
It is well to remember that in that regard a drifting life is like a drifting vessel...
It is fraught with peril and disaster.
When a man drifts from his anchorage in Christ, he affects a hundred other lives.
No one can tell the hurt that he may bring when he drifts into indifference and worldliness...
Spoiling the fair name of Christ, damping the zeal of zealous, eager people...
Making it always easier to be skeptical and always harder to be true.
One of the signals of a drifting iceberg is a rapid lowering of the temperature.
Drifting lives are just like drifting icebergs: wherever they drift there is fall in temperature.
They chill the church.
They chill the congregation.
They chill the eager loyalties of youth...
Not because they are notoriously bad, but just because they are drifting.
~George H. Morrison~
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