Distracted

Steve Says

We live in a world full of distractions. This is not new, my entire life there have been advertisements all over the place. Just driving down the highway there are billboards meant to take your attention away from the road so you can think about, and desire, something else. The advertisements aren’t new, and having things around that distract us is not new, but these distractions have changed over time. Now we carry phones that buzz in our pockets to give us updates on whatever it is that we are currently following. In fact, these distractions are now so addicting that we have let them infiltrate EVERY aspect of our lives. Most people in our society today ALWAYS have their phone on them. We are so addicted to our devices that we feel phantom vibrations in our pocket, even when the phone isn’t there!

Isn’t it sad that we most of us don’t get distracted by God the way we get distracted by our phones. Isn’t it sad that we let our phones and notifications dictate our day instead of our devotion to God dictating our day. Paul says that “at the right time Christ died for the ungodly”. I’m glad Jesus came 2,000 years ago because I think today many of us would be too distracted to recognize him.  

Maybe I’m being too harsh. If I’m being harsh, it’s only because I struggle with this as well! But we need to be better. We need to be more devoted to our Bible that we are to our phones. We need to be more devoted to prayer than we are to social media. God uses His people to be ambassadors. He has given us the ministry of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:11-21). We need to help others reconcile with God and we need to teach them what it means to live for God. If we are too distracted by worldly things, how will the world know God?