“Drifting results in either being stranded at sea or crushed by the waves”
As with nearly everything in this life, drifting along, coasting, does *not* result in anything worthwhile. Humans gravitate towards ‘bad’, just as the rest of the natural world does. Just as well known scientists defined laws of thermodynamics of the natural world, Carson defined it for the spiritual:
“People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
— D. A. Carson