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So Easily Distracted

Living in America makes it so easy to get distracted when you set your mind to anything. As a Christian, you're definitely distracted by everything trying to pull you away from God. As a student, social media seems to call your name more than ever. As a husband or wife, worries seem to come into play along with everything trying to come in between you and your spouse. As a driver, everyone seems to text you at the worst time. As an athlete, the mistake that just happened moments earlier keeps playing in your head. You get the point, right? Distractions are alive and well all around us, heck, you might even be reading this as a distraction to whatever it is you were doing.

I unfortunately don't have the solution to get rid of certain distractions. I'm currently supposed to be working on a few papers for school but I can't seem to get my rhythm going, but thankfully it's getting there little by little. So I'll keep this blog as one of my shortest yet and let me encourage you. Regardless of what has distracted you in the goal you have set in your mind, get back up and keep trying.

2 Corinthians 4:18 says, "So we don't look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on the things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever."

Yes this is speaking about our walk with God, our journey with God will be a struggle, but we can also see this from the point of view as a student or any situation described above. Even though we can get distracted or situations are happening around us, we have to look to God for that strength and look to God to guide us to get back on our feet to complete the task we have set before ourselves. I hope that this small encouragement may be of some use, as for me, I will get back to finishing some papers and I pray you have a blessed day.
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  1. Danielle ConlonOctober 31, 2018 at 4:46 PM

    It's true I have fail many a test procrastinating by allowing myself to be distracted I hate it but I pray not to repeat my mistakes, doesn't it seem when we're young you feel as if we have all the time in the world then when you turn older you find you don't...

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