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[00:00:09] Welcome back to the weekday podcast. This is Bobby. We're so grateful you're here today. If we can pray for you this week, drop us a
[email protected] today. I want to think about this idea of drifting. Not the kind where your car slides on an icy road, but the kind that actually happens quietly and suddenly in your heart. It's when you start something that's meaningful. You have good intentions, but over time, you just quietly slide away from it. Now, it's usually not dramatic. It's actually slow. It's actually subtle. Sometimes it sounds like, I'll pray later, or sometimes it sounds like, well, I'll get back to church when life slows down. But before you realize it, the mission that once felt crystal clear actually starts to feel fuzzy now. That's where we find the people of God in Nehemiah 13.
[00:00:51] After the wall was rebuilt and the city was restored, the celebration was over. And so was their focus. Nehemiah discovered that the Levites, who were supposed to lead worship, they've gone back to their farms. Why? Because the people stopped supporting their work. In other words, they stopped paying attention to what mattered most. Not out of rebellion, but out of neglect. They got busy, they got distracted, they got preoccupied with life, and worship went quiet. Now, in the same way, in our lives, we don't usually walk away from God in anger. We actually drift away in distraction.
[00:01:22] We fill our calendars, our minds, our feeds, and little by little, our spiritual priorities get buried underneath the clutter of everything else. And that's why Nehemiah's question hits so deep. He asked the question, why is the house of God forsaken? Now, he's not talking about a building. He's talking about attention. Why is the presence of God no longer central to your rhythm? And that's the funny thing about neglect. It's sneaky. It doesn't feel rebellious, but it still robs us of joy. And that's why remembering is such a powerful spiritual act. In the Hebrew, the word remember means to bring something back to mind with intention. In other words, to reattach your heart to what matters. It's kind of like cleaning out your garage. You start with a plan. You got the label maker in hand. You got the fresh bins from Home Depot, a podcast playing in the background. But then you find that old treadmill, that box of Christmas lights that somehow multiplies every year, and that random Allen wrench that probably belongs to something you no longer own. You tell yourself, I'll finish later, but Then life happens. A few weeks go by, a few months go by, and one day you open the door and you realize you can't see the floor anymore. You didn't plan for the mess. It just happened one small pile at a time. And that's what spiritual drift looks like. You don't intend to lose focus. It just happens. Vision gets buried under busyness. And the mission of God that He gave you gets lost underneath all the piles. So remembering the mission is like rolling up your sleeves. It's like turning on the light. It's like clearing the space again. Now it's messy, but it's also freeing because you're not starting from scratch. You're rediscovering what's been there all along. So what do you do? Let me give you three simple ways to remember your mission this week. Number one. Revisit God's faithfulness. Literally look back and trace the fingerprints of grace in your story. Where did God carry you? Where did he surprise you? Where did he provide for you? Gratitude is the antidote to drift. Number two. Refocus your heart. Ask God to reignite your why. When serving, your giving fills routine. Pause and pray. Lord, remind me who I'm doing this for. And then number three. Re engage your hands. Step back into obedience. Serve again, give again, pray again. And when you re engage your hands, your heart tends to follow faithfulness. It isn't about emotion. It's about attention. And when you remember the mission, you realign your life to what matters most. If you don't remember the mission, you'll misplace your miracle. So today, I want to encourage you. Take five minutes. Revisit what God started in your life. Pull it out from under the clutter. Because faithfulness begins by remembering who called you in the first place. And so today, I just want to encourage you. Let's remember the mission today. Have a great day. We'll see you back here soon.
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