It is so easy to
become distracted from the things that are important to us, such as our
relationships with Yahweh, our ideals in and the qualities our potential mate
should possess, occupational goals, etc. These goals and more can easily be
unintentionally placed on the back burner; the sad thing is, we may never
remember to get back to them until it is too late, causing our life to take a
turn for the worst and we may never get back on track in achieving our goals.
Distraction comes in
many subtle ways, disguised as harmless, controllable events that we have
control over, events that slowly grow on us, taking up more and more of our
thought and time until it becomes a major part of your life. We then become too
occupy with the unimportant until our subtle distraction (s) changes our
priority and replaces our goals.
It may begin with an
unguarded thought, a thought we fail to bring into subjection to our values and
the moral standards we hold dear, a harmless conversation which pleases the
senses, a conversation that we indulged in just a little, a visual that appeal
to the carnal nature that can easily lead to even greater distractions,
blinding us from the important things, our goals.
Deuteronomy 28:1-2, 12-13 KJV
And it shall come to
pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to
observe and to do all his commandments, that the Lord thy God will set thee on
high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on
thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.
The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain
unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and thou
shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. And the Lord shall
make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou
shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord
thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them.
We need to be focus
on Jesus Christ the solid rock, the holy son of Yahweh. We ought to make him
number one in our life and we will never ever again lose sight of what is
important to us again.