Psalm 141:3-4 Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips. Don’t let me DRIFT toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness. Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong.
Don’t let me drift toward evil. What a great prayer.
Isn’t that how it usually is? Very rarely do we go immediately toward evil. We drift towards it. Closer and closer. Like a frog being boiled in water until we are fully consumed.
No one goes from faithful to affair overnight.
From honest to a thief.
From sober to a drunk.
Use whatever sin you want. Anyone who falls into evil, especially from a place of faithfulness, usually drifts there.
One more look.
One more text or flirty comment.
One more drink.
One more fib. Whatever it is.
Before you know it, you’re no longer drifting, you’re in the ditch.
How are you doing in your drift? Are you focused on the right path? Are you prayed what David prayed?
“Don’t let me DRIFT toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness.”
