Distractions

 Distraction.  It comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes but its constantly hovering just on the periphery of our vision ready to come into full focus the minute we glance its way.  Last night I got distracted - I started a conversation with someone online which I knew was just going to lead down a rabbit hole and achieve nothing really.  But I do so like the sound of my own voice :)  And I enjoy the banter ...  so I stayed up later than I should have done and wasted time being distracted.  And lo and behold, today when I was trying to listen for what God was saying I found that everything had gone a bit foggy and my mind was wandering - couldnt hear much at all.

I was also distracted just by being very busy today.  Its not often that Im full on busy all day at the moment - but I have been today and so in the busyness I told myself Id have time to listen for what to put in the blog later.  Suddenly its 10pm and I havent written anything and I have no idea about what to write.

And then there's the telly programme Ive been watching and I dont want to miss this episode so Im watching it and the time is ticking by and the pressure is mounting to come up with something for the blog.

I trust I am not alone in being easily distracted. In procrastinating.  In prioritising poorly.  Sigh. Ive never been at all disciplined in my Christian life.  I dont have a set quiet time.  I dont read the Bible in a structured way these days. I havent even been to church for the past nine months!!!   I do sometimes wonder why God bothers with me 😀   But that's the whole point isnt it?  There is nothing about me which deserves the attention, the love, the words, the presence of God.   But He loves, attends, speaks, comes anyway.  If anyone had a track record of being easily distracted it was the Israelites.  Golden calves, constant wandering, failing and falling again and again and even turning to other gods.  But God had made a promise - a covenant - with Abram.  The God who relentlessly led, taught, defended, disciplined, loved and protected His people was not going to be satisfied until He had paid for their sins, covered their weaknesses with His strength and breathed the very life of His Spirit into them.  

That God is my God.  That God is your God.  

Today, however feeble your efforts, however easily distracted, however apparently massive your failings, God will keep His promise.  He has come that you and I may know life in all its fullness and be one with Him just as He is one with the Father.

Hallelujah.




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