DISTRACTIONS!

Distractions can be your family members, like mine who continually interrupt me to look at old photos as I write the description for today’s devotion. “Ma, look at this one…” LOL

Distractions can cause you to lose focus on the most important things in your life; family, and work. They can also be caused by a loss of interest in the primary activity, an inability to pay attention, or the intensity of the distraction itself.

However, the worst distractions are the ones (if allowed) that take a person’s attention away from God. For instance, you have created a time set aside to pray, but one thing after another seems to happen directly before this time and those things seem to need your immediate attention, the washer is spinning out of control due to the clothes being off balance. So, I run downstairs to correct this before it walks out the door! Are such distractions hindering your scheduled time to yourself, or are they robbing you of your peace and joy?

In the Bible, David, with Bathsheeba, then we have Peter when he was distracted when Jesus called him to step out on the water and come to Him. The list goes on.

Then we get upset at ourselves which is a distraction because we allowed the distractions to distract us! What do we do?

When we pray, and remember prayer is having a sincere talk with our LORD. To thank Him for His goodness and mercy, worship and praise our LORD and Savior, and seek His forgiveness and prayers for those on our prayer list. Then our prayer should be, LORD please deliver me from distractions from the importance of serving You!

Blessings,

Presiding Elder Barbara Hayes

TWFYT | NIV