From time to time my mind wanders and I just forget God’s presence. I am much better now, but not completely healed. Spiritual distraction is a sin I had to fight often. “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me?” (Jdg 16:15) Make sure that you read the Bible more than the newspaper, Christian books more than novels, listen to worship music more than the secular radio, watch spiritual movies more than the news on the TV…Įven lady Delilah, as wicked as she was, complained about Samson being distracted and in the same time confessing love to her… Repent! Purify your heart and motives for ministry! Your love for the Savior should be the only reason for your sacrifice of worship! You should need nothing else! Nobody should beg you to worship God, to pay your tithe or to come to church! Desire to worship God from your heart! Be jealous and protect your quiet times with the Lord! Be faithful in the study of the Word and prayer! It is better to read less scriptures but with an undivided attention and honoring God, than to read much and retain nothing. The solution is to come back to Jesus, back to your First Love! Come back to the Cross and remind yourself of the price of true Love! You have to identify these hindrances as sins. She was lovingly rebuked by the Lord who said that Mary has chosen the best place in the universe: an undivided attention to God’s Word and worship (Lk 10:38-42) She became jealous on her sister who just sat at His feet, listening to His Word. She was busy with cooking for Jesus until she became too frustrated to worship Him. The best example of a distracted worshiper is Martha, the sister of Mary and Lazarus. These are able to hinder the flow of worship. All these thoughts cause doubt or anxiety. The mind is too preoccupied with things about jobs, promotion, money, marriage, children, worries about life and death in general. Other sources of spiritual distraction are business and worldliness. You may think that no true believer will fall for its tricks, but many mighty men joined the world thru this old deception. He tempts you to ignore the true Gospel of Christ Crucified and to grieve the Holy Spirit and trade it for ‘other gospels, saviors or spirits’ (2Cor 11:3, 4). The devil deceives you by offering confusion in place of the pure simplicity of Christ, which he calls ‘boredom’. He is able to attack the mind bringing confusion, division and distraction. The main cause for spiritual distraction is the devil. If uncorrected, it becomes a sin leading to bondage that may require deliverance. This warning against dangerous spiritual distraction applies only to the true believers for the unsaved cannot worship God. To be distracted it means to have your attention diverted from the right object to another, to lose your focus, to mix your priorities, to become complicated emotionally, to get confused with conflicting motives. The word ‘distraction’ in Greek means to drag heavy things around the house to be full of domestic cares that have the ability to draw you out from God’s presence. One of the most common hindrances to true worship is a divided, cluttered, distracted heart. We are commanded to examine ourselves if we are still in the center of God’s will. “Attend… Serve, the Lord without distraction… Live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord” (1Cor 7:35)
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