"And yet, being conventional in mood and training and utterly domesticated by time and conditions over which he seemed not to have much control - nature, custom, public opinion, and the like, coming into play as forces - he had drifted, had not taken any drastic action. No, he had merely drifted, wondering if time, accident, or something might not interfere and straighten out his life for him, but it never had."
By Theodore Dreiser the short story Free relates of a very carefree man, a drifter. Too often we are like said man. We are drifting. Instead of drifting we must set up a course of action, a plan or map or strategy by which we guide ourselves. Some do this according to ambitions, and I admit that I am such. I am an awfully ambitious person and yet this is not always a wrong thing. Being a drifter is not always a bad thing either, but it can be. So it is with those who are ambitious. Yet if our ambition is to follow God's plan, thereby glorifying Him, than we are right on target. But it is our duty to take "drastic actions" to follow His plan and to glorify Him. We can't simply sail along, or drift, according to our spiritual inclinations of the moment.
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