Ever been distracted? I see people all the time in that state. You'll see a car weaving in the road and then when you pass them you notice they're on their cell phone. Others have wrecks (I know of two, one of them fatal) because they were fiddling with their radio/cd player. The state of Nebraska is getting ready to pass a bill that will require distraction-free driving. (Good luck!!)
Satan has a number of tools in our lives. Distraction happens to be one of them. You want to read the Scripture, but the computer sits there ready to go. You want to talk to your children, but a good song comes on the radio. You want to tell someone your story, someone else interrupts. Besides busy-ness, I think distraction is Satan's best tool.
How do we combat this? The Hebrew writer tries to get us to lay aside all the weights (distractions), and run the race. He says, "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus." The Greek word, I understand, is to stare. Stare at Jesus. Peter didn't when he tried to walk on water and look what happened to him. The same thing happens to us. Notice when you are getting closer to God how many distractions come up. Satan is hard at work. So, stare at Jesus. If you start to feel the water bubbling around your neck, you took your eyes off of Him. Have a good day. JW
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