Distracted

When Jesus was here His disciples were preoccupied with their ideas about the Messiah. Who He would be and what He would do occupied their minds so much that they nearly missed the One Who chose them to follow Him and learn from Him. In some ways, this same preoccupation keeps many people today from becoming disciples of Jesus. They hear all of the wonderful gifts we are given through our belief in Him, but they seem to have blinders that keep them from seeing Him as their Lord and Savior.

It’s like we are too busy with “things” in our lives that get in the way of our commitment and desire to know and follow Him. How can we commit some time to studying His Word every day? The only way I know is to have a Bible study app on my phone and follow it daily. Life gets in the way of our commitment to Him, which is the problem. We should give our troubles and our cares of this life to Him so we can learn how to be His disciples.

Many who go to church hear this wonderful news and yet their life gets in the way. Everyday worries and troubles cause them to become distracted from following Jesus. They don’t believe that they have become distracted because they still listen to God’s Word and pray but your day should begin and end with His Word and with prayer in between to keep you on your pathway.

God doesn’t get preoccupied. He takes care of the whole universe and He is interested in your daily life as well. Most of us don’t understand that God cares that much about each of us, not just as a whole but individually. Remembering what Jesus told His Father in His prayer for the disciples is humbling. “I pray that they will be one just as we are one”. His hope for us was to be as one and not splintered and divided like the church is today.

It seems that many of us get distracted from our walk with Jesus. Sometimes it happens as we leave the church on Sunday and it carries on through the week until we are back at church again. Think about Jesus being distracted from His mission. How would that have played out? Not very well I’d imagine because if He can get distracted then He can’t be God in the flesh! I’m sure He was tempted to “take a day” but He couldn’t. That is what I imagine those times that He went off by Himself to be with the Father were about.