You can also choose either a top-down or chase cam perspective to suit your preferred playstyle. The result is gameplay that is easy to pick up and learn but will be hard to fully master. This arcade racer was designed to strike a balance between fun driving mechanics and realistic physics. This New Year's Day, take King David's advice:Star Drift Evolutions is a beautifully minimalistic racing game that is all about the art of drifting. If you're looking for stability in an unstable world, you will find it in following and obeying God's Word. Perseverance is extremely difficult when we have the natural tendency to drift.ĭavid knows as Ralph Davis says that, "True stability only comes through obedience to the Lord's commands ( 1 Kings: The Wisdom and the Folly)." Not only does David want his son to walk in God's ways but also to keep God's ways. David encourages his son to walk in God's ways: to make the Bible his instruction manual for life. Once you've observed, then it's time to either put it in action or not. David realized that man's ways never work long-term, and God's ways work every time. When you first do something you observe it to make sure it is something worth doing. Then he tells him to take courage and show himself to be a man by doing 3 things: Please don't make the same mistakes I've made." David drifted again, and there were consequences for these actions.ĭavid was telling his son, "Son, I've lived a lot of life and have made a lot of mistakes. He did this because he either wanted to take pride in the size of his large army, or he wanted to find security in his army instead of God. Although this was against God's will, David counted his men anyway. In 1 Chronicles 21 Satan incited David to take a census of Israel. This drifting led to an affair and a murder. He saw a married woman bathing and desired her. In 2 Samuel 11 instead of going to war with his men like most kings did, he stayed home and was up late at night looking for trouble. In two different situations, we know that David drifted from God. What causes you to drift away from the LORD?ĭavid's message is clear to Solomon and to us:ĭavid himself knew what drifting was all about. You may start the next two weeks off strong, and all of a sudden, life gets in the way, distractions come, and you drift away from your original goal/resolution you made. You may have goals to spend more time with Christ: reading the Bible, praying, serving, getting more involved in Church. With today being New Year’s Day, you may be thinking about ways you can grow spiritually. When it comes to our spiritual lives, we all may have good intentions, but all of a sudden, unfortunate circumstances happen, we get distracted, and we wander off in a direction we had no intention of going. Have you ever been on an aircraft or a ship, and the winds or currents of the water change your direction, and you begin to drift from your intended course?ĭrifting is a slow movement from one place or another.Have you ever been in a class, and you began to drift off in sleep?.Have you ever been on a raft in the ocean, and within minutes you all of a sudden notice that you are further away from your beach chairs and towels than you thought?.Our nature tells us to do the opposite thing that God wants us to do. Pay close attention to God's ways.ĭavid knew, as Dennis Rainey says, that we all have a natural tendency to drift from the ways of God ( Stepping Up: A Call to Courageous Manhood). I believe at the core of this message, King David was giving his son a warning and a clear message:īeware of drifting. So be strong, and show yourself a man, and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in His ways, and keeping His statutes, His commandments, His rules, His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn, that the LORD may establish His word that He spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before Me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel (1 Kings 2:2-4).'” “I am about to go the way of all the earth. He knew his time was short, and he wanted to give his son, Solomon, some advice. In the Bible, King David was reaching a point in his years where he couldn't keep warm, even when covers were put on him (1 Kings 1:1). If you knew you didn't have much time left to live, what would you want to tell those who are closest to you? What would they need to hear?
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