“Stop listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.”
The word “stray” in this verse is a powerful concept in scripture. It carries with it imagery that portrays the process of straying vividly. The dictionary of words for the King James says it literally means, “The act of wandering”. The great hymn Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessings includes the line, “to grace how great a debtor, Daily I’m constrained to be! Let Thy goodness like a fetter, Bind my wand’ring heart to thee;Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love.” Hebrews 2:1 admonishes us to pay close attention to what we have learned about God and how we are to live with and for Him daily or we may drift and find ourselves far from Him unaware of where He is and how to get back. One of the truly sad stories in the Kingdom is about the author of the hymn I mentioned and how he interrupted a gentleman whistling the hymn. He asked him to stop because he was the author and he had wandered away from God and become a disheveled drunk. Hearing the song pierced his heart reminding him of how true his lyrics were. Today hold tightly to God’s truth and don’t glance away. #BeTheEdge
“We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.” Hebrews 2:1 NIV
