Satan's Distractions (Part 2)

What are your distractions?  I’m sure you have them, everyone does.  What is important though is how we handle these distractions and keep our focus on God.  Remember, distractions are designed by Satan to captivate your time, energy, and resources.  When it comes to your spiritual walk, a distraction is anything that draws your attention away from God, His Word, and His plan and purpose for your life.

Just a reminder about the dangers of distractions:

•    A distraction’s “spiritual destruction” is gradual.  It happens over time not over night.
•    Distractions will delay or even abort God’s plan for your life.
•    They can cause you to miss God’s timing concerning people, things, and events.
•    They rob you of your time and energy.
•    Distractions will keep you from being as close to God as He desires you to be.
•    They damage and choke a proper relationship with God.

The church as a whole is not “immune” to Satan’s distractions.  The Church has become distracted by many of the “cares” of the world.  When the Church begins to focus more on the deceitfulness of riches and a love for the things of the world rather than the people of the world, it has become distracted from its mission to save the lost.  It’s time for the Church to awaken!  It’s time for the Church to become what God intended it to be…a light to a world of darkness.

You can avoid distractions by learning to recognize them quickly.  The longer we “tolerate” the distraction, the more entrenched and dangerous it becomes.  Ask God to reveal to you, through the Holy Spirit, exactly what is distracting you from God’s priorities.  Discipline yourself to stay focused on God and evaluate on a daily basis what you are doing to ensure it lines up with God’s plan.

To conquer distractions your must:

•    Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus
•    Know God’s purpose for your life
•    Keep your relationship with God fresh and growing
•    Devote your attention to God and the things of God
•    Set aside the weights and sins that so easily “beset” you.

This week, be aware of the distractions Satan is trying to weigh you down and cloud your mind and thinking with.  Serve the Lord diligently.  “Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.  Whom resist stedfast in the faith.” (1 Peter 5:8).