Daily Devotional: Thursday, June 20 – Distraction

“Set your thoughts on issues above, not on earthly issues.” — Colossians 3:2

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Golf is a notoriously troublesome sport to get good at, requiring the very best ranges of focus. And even then, pictures usually go awry. Should you’ve ever attended knowledgeable golf event, one of many course guidelines is that you need to decrease the noise you make whereas golfers are lining up for his or her subsequent shot. These programs are attempting to keep up an environment the place the game may be performed at a excessive stage. Fixed distraction would render golf virtually unplayable, and thus unwatchable.

Distraction can also be an obstacle to a flourishing non secular life with God. We stay in a society that’s maybe extra distracted than some other technology earlier than us. There’s all the time someplace to go, one thing to do. Even when our our bodies aren’t on the transfer, our minds are. Textual content, electronic mail and social media notifications guarantee they’re all the time leaping from one factor to the following and again once more.

Residing the totality of life like this hurts our capacity to commune with God each hour of each day. We get up, and we might pray or learn the Bible, however our minds are on the duties forward. On the finish of that day, we come residence, collapse on the sofa, and activate the favored new TV present. Later that evening we attempt to atone for emails, however we get distracted and fall into the most recent checklist of viral social media movies. Then we fall asleep and repeat the sample the next day.

Merely, we enable distraction to forestall us from creating an environment in our lives during which we are able to acknowledge and reply to how the Holy Spirit is working.

God’s intention in our lives is to not have His voice drowned out by a seemingly endless string “dings” on our telephones or soundbites from media personalities. So let’s search to recuperate some intentional quiet time in our lives to be able to hear from God. Away from the distractions, away from the busyness of life, similar to golfers, we want to have the ability to set our minds on the actually worthwhile issues. Then, we are able to flourish.

— Kevin Mercer

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