Yesterday, my husband and I had been within the depths of nice dialogue about what God was doing. God was revealing some issues we would have liked godly perspective on. He was giving us solutions. He was shifting. But, my eye saved wandering.
Why?
There was a bug on the wall.
It have to be a stinkbug, I assumed. I thought of getting a paper towel to do what I all the time do, which is to seize it and to relocate it exterior.
My husband continued to speak. Every little thing he was saying was necessary and life-giving for our household, however on the soonest pause in dialog, I hopped up. As an alternative of constant to remain within the movement of what God was doing, I used to be distracted by a bug on the wall.
Utterly dropping observe of what God was doing, I reached out with the paper towel to seize the bug, however…. ICK! It was not a stinkbug; it was a COCKROACH!!!
My pores and skin began to crawl.
My coronary heart began to race.
What number of are in right here?
How lengthy have this stuff been in the home?
Why are the youngsters leaving popcorn crumbs on the ground?
Concern began to settle in. Leaving my bible on the desk, I ran off to Amazon to purchase traps. I returned again to examine the partitions. I threw blankets out of my method.
My husband grabbed the vacuum. Furnishings was moved.
However, abruptly he switched off the hum of the cleaner and in silence he proclaimed, “Kelly, that is precisely how the satan works; he distracts us!”
And, wasn’t my husband proper?
Deep devotion is well stolen by random distraction.
How typically are we within the coronary heart of God and a cellphone rings. Or, we’re in a mountain-moving prayer and a to-do checklist merchandise involves thoughts. Or, we’re making actual strides in journaling and our textual content messages ding and get the higher of us? A physician offers us a nasty report and we lose all peaceable connection to God’s coronary heart.
It’s one of many biggest ploys of the enemy. Distraction detours us and deters us from reference to God.
So, how will we fight it? Listed here are 3 ways:
1. Hold a journal shut: Hold it subsequent to you so you may write “issues to do later” there. As an alternative of getting up and doing one thing else, emailing an individual, shopping for one thing on-line — make a remark so you may tackle it after you’re executed.
2. Bounce: When your thoughts begins to go off in a course, don’t get offended at your self, bounce your ideas again to God and what He’s saying.
3. Go greater: If you happen to really feel worry, fear or stress begin to come on you, say to Devil, “Get behind me.” Then, go greater than the issue. Keep in mind that God is greater, greater, and stronger than any earthly fear that’s hitting you.
“Set your thoughts and preserve centered habitually on the issues above [the heavenly things], not on issues which are on the earth [which have only temporal value].” (Col. 3:2)
Prayer: Father, give me a thoughts to stick with you. Hold me from evil and temptations that draw me away out of your love and coronary heart. I need you greater than the rest in life. In Jesus’ title. Amen
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Kelly, a fun-loving, energetic and spunky mother of two rambunctious toddlers, spends her days pushing swings, altering diapers and pursuing the Lord with all her coronary heart. Referred to as a “Cheerleader of Religion”, Kelly’s biggest want is to assist girls dwell passionately, purposefully and unencumbered for the Lord.
