DISTRACTION

Hello everyone,Divine here again ,it’s been a while .A lot has been going on but I also had time to write down how my daily life affects and impacts my life as a Christian

I wrote this piece when I took time to meditate on a scripture I read that in ROMANS 12 vs 2

Distraction is a major concern as a Christian in the world we are today and if you’re asking what kind of distraction ,you would find out soon

We know distractions turns our our attention away from something we want to concentrate on.

And this is what the devil wants for us .Satan love’s distracted Christian’s . He doesn’t care what that thing is ,as long as it’s turning your attention away from God he is soooo good with it .

But the question here is how do we stay spiritually focused in a distracted world :??????

In the world we are today our brains are being trained to crave distraction and if we are not careful,we can become disconnected from our creator .

Even if there is a moment to slow down and seek our creator we tend to distract ourselves instead of giving our attention to God .

JOHN 10vs 10,(ALL SATAN HAS TO DO IS TO ACCOMPLISH HIS GOAL TO DISTRACT US AND WHEN HE DISTRACTS US ,WE BECOME DISCONNECTED FROM OUR CREATOR.

As Christians there are certain ways we can help ourselves not to get distracted:

1)PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU’RE PAYING ATTENTION TO

As Christian’s we must be very careful of what we are giving our attention to because what we give our attention to is what we become discipled by . That is what fills our minds ultimately fills our hearts ROMANS 12vs 2

NOTE;We ask for the spirit of discernment but we do not renew our minds PROVERBS 4vs 23 tells us to guard our hearts above all else for it is the source of life .

2)CREATE BOUNDARIES AND CONSTRAINTS

When it comes to guarding what is valuable in our lives,we set up boundaries and constraints to make sure those valuables are safe

In this way ,we need to set up boundaries and constraints in our lives to protect ourselves from ourselves. JEREMIAH 17vs9 tells us that “The heart is more deceitful than anything else and incurable “

“People don’t drift towards holiness,we drift towards disobedience “.

We forget that our greatest enemy is the flesh and we carry it everywhere we go ,the flesh is in enmity with God. Why then do we obey the flesh .

This is why we do not drift towards spending time with God ,we drift towards distraction and letting other things fill our minds .

3)SET YOUR MINDS ON THINGS ABOVE

ROMANS 12vs 2,paul tells us “Not to be conformed to this age ” but we cannot accomplish this by simply protecting our attention .we must begin to focus on the right things

This is why he goes to say “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind “

SET YOUR MIND ON THINGS ABOVE ,NOT ON EARTHLY THINGS .

We battle distraction this way by being enamored by the things of heaven,to begin to crave spending time with God .

Some simple ways you can take control of what you give your attention to :

1)Turn of push notifications,especially on days when you want to study your bible

2)set screen time limits ,we spend most of the time on our phones making our phones control what we give attention to and even our time

3)Take regular breaks from social media.we know how unGodly things are rampant now on social media and we know that most people use social media for business and other important things but we can take breaks on certain days and pay attention to things that also matters

4)Cut off people who are of bad influence to you .please do not hate them but you can choose to love people from a distance.The bible tells us to walk with people whom we both share the same faith ,to avoid backsliding we must ensure that we move with the right set of people as we know “Iron sharpeneth iron “

5) let go of secular musics ,pay attention to what you’re being discipled by.what is in the lyrics of the songs you’re listening to .

NOTE: In an ever-distracted world ,the way we stay spiritually focused is to set our minds on things above .

I hope this piece gets to everyone out there .God will help us all over our fears of being distracted in the age and time .