Distractions can pop up at anytime. They can
be something that happens to you, they can
happen in front of you or they can happen to
your friends or family that drags you into it.
Distractions can be accidental or on purpose.
You don't have to be ADD to be consumed by
distractions. Anyone who has ever been on the
Internet knows first hand how distractions
work.
Distractions can be a physical happening or
something that is all happening in your mind or
a combination of both. Anything can become a
distraction! If I were to name all of the
different types of distractions, I could easily fill
a book. There are harmless distractions and
harmful distractions, both good and bad.
Recognizing the difference between them
becomes important. Distractions can lead to a
state of confusion. 1 Corinthians 14:33 "For
God is not the author of confusion but of
peace" Confusion can also lead to more
distractions. As an effective weapon of the
Devil, distraction is best used keeping
Christians tied up and too busy to spend time
with their God. Some distractions can lead you
not only down the wrong path but lead to your
destruction! Harmful deceitful distractions that
cause you to waste your time, effort and
energy to gain nothing while promising
everything. Most attacks from the Devil are
done with distractions. All sin is used as
distractions to keep your attention off of God!
Distractions that can take your attention away
from listening to beautiful worship music
playing on your car stereo and flip it over to the
driver who just cut you off and then hit his
brakes. Now your attention is fully on the other
driver and your temper has kicked in. After
screaming at the driver, who can't hear you
with your windows up, you honk your horn,
give them a dirty look or something more
expressive as you drive off. Mumbling to
yourself you don't even notice the worship
music playing that you were previously sing
with. Now the rest of your day is turned upside
down because that distraction has successfully
messed you up and robbed you of the joy that
you had just moments earlier! It is hard to receive
the awesome blessings God has planned for you
when you are too busy being upset and angry
from distractions.
Everywhere in life distractions await you.
Advertisers are banking on grabbing your
attention by creative distractions anyway they
can. As you drive, listen to the radio, watch TV, go
to the movies or just hanging out with your
friends, distractions from advertising surround
you. Then there are those distractions that you
encounter on the news and in politics when our
leaders use an obscure news story to distract us
from the more important news that they are busy
trying to cover up. To deflect your attention away
with distractions elsewhere. Sad thing is that
distractions are just part of life. We humans are
easily distracted!
God uses distractions to help get your attention
and focus back on Him and put you back on His
path. "Nudging" of the Holy Spirit is just another
way to say distraction by the Holy Spirit. Harmful
distractions can hurt and damage your daily walk
with God. They will limit your blessings and the
use of your spiritual gifts. It becomes important
that you are VERY aware of the types of
distractions that are at work around you. How
you handle distractions and how you let
distractions handle you is key to your walk with
Father God and how you live your daily life! Now
that you are aware what is at work around you,
you need to ask Father God for the gift of
discernment and wisdom to help you recognize
and correctly handle those harmful distractions.
To flip this totally upside down you also need to
know that you are God's plan to be a heavenly
distraction here on earth everywhere you go!
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