Drifting Caused By The Rising Of The Tide Or Change Of Circumstances

Act 27:15  And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.
     
Again, we must not forget that boats may drift because of the rising of the tide. 

One has had that experience on summer holidays. 

You draw the rowboat high up on the shore, and you leave it there, thinking it is safe. 

But the night is the night of a spring tide, and concurring with the tide there blows a gale. 

And in the morning you go to get the boat, only to find that it is gone...

The spring tide has come and set it drifting. 

That is often how young people go drifting. 

Youth is the spring tide of life. 

Passions awake, tempestuous and turbulent...

New thought and knowledge lap around the gunwale. 

And lives that once were safe, beached in the securities of childhood, go drifting like ships upon the sea. 

That often happens when a lad goes to college out of an orthodox and godly home. 

He enters a new world of thought and gains a new conception of the universe. 

And the ship that was so safe once amid the unquestioning pieties of home, finds itself drifting on the deeps. 

Spring tide has come, and spring tide is of God. 

God is in the flow as in the ebb. 

Lives that drift like that can be recaptured. 

There is One who is out to seek and save.

I find a perennial and profound significance in a Savior who could walk upon the sea. 

Drifting stops when He is taken aboard.

~George H. Morrison~