Great Struggles From Big Distractions

These are days of great struggles; for me, for you, for all of us, no one is exempt. It’s hard to stay focused on what really matters with so many distractions these days. If you are like me, you struggle with new distractions daily. Some tend to start off small and seemingly inconsequential, others are big and never really go away.

You know what I’m talking about, who can forget about those old demons that raise their heads up every now and then just to remind us of our past? It’s not easy on this path of chasing after God and His righteousness when it seems as though evil triumphs daily.

But there is hope. God has made the very thing that is so hard to do(spending time with Him), also the easiest thing to do. “But how” do you ask? It’s like this. God isn’t a phone call away. He isn’t waiting for you to find a quiet place all alone for you to spend time with Him. He’s not waiting for you to go to church or waiting for you speak to your pastor, friends, and family so He can give you His Word and advice.

Christian, God is inside your very living, breathing heart. You are indwelt with His Holy Spirit! And because His spirit is living in us we have instant and constant communication with Him. There is no place we can go, no place we can hide, no situation we can be in, where He is not there with us.

We, are distracted from Him, not Him from us. Distraction is a tool of satan to help render Christians practically useless. He knows if he can keep us distracted long enough and interrupt our communication with God we will eventually fall out of God’s will (becoming ineffective in the world) and out from under His hand of protection.

To stay connected all we need do is keep that line of communication open all the time. Do this, yes by praying, but know that you don’t have to be in “formal prayer” to talk to and have a conversation/relationship with God.

Read scripture! It was written for this very reason. Learn to fight against new distractions before they well up and become a very real problem. Set some rules and boundaries in place to help you.

2 Corinthians 10:15
~ We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

The very “Knowledge of God”!

Isn’t it interesting to know that He tells us to demolish even the smallest pretension that comes from anyone or anything that tries to hide or distort any knowledge of Himself? This is one way of Him saying, “I am Real, I am Here!”

An amazing thing happens after reading those words…….All my distractions are gone.

Be the Blessing!