Distractions

I've been thinking about distractions lately. Maybe it's because I've been fighting through so many of them lately. But it seems to me that Satan loves distractions. It keeps us from focusing on Kingdom work.

Lately there has been a lot of distractions. Satan has been extra busy. The Devil has been hard at work in people's lives. He uses people that way. And he does so all in the name of truth. But it's not truth, it's a lie. After all, he is the father of lies.

But he sucks people in. They don't even know it--until it's too late. And sometimes I wonder if even then. Some folks live a delusion that has tainted the whole world to them. Not only are they distracted, but they have become the distraction. Satan wins.

But, of course, in the end Satan never wins--God does.

It's funny how these distractions seem to mean less and less over time. They become little more than a bee sting that hurts at first, maybe even swells up and festers; but eventually it fades away and is forgotten.

I guess when I think about it, these distractions amount to little more than the desperate roar of a lion who has lost his teeth. It makes a lot of noise, scares a lot of people, but is relay pretty powerless. The sad thing is how many folks want to take up the lion's roar. The sad thing is... how many people run and never look to see how toothless and powerless these roars really are.

I suppose what I'm saying is: I'm tired of being distracted by the pride (think double meaning here) of toothless, powerless, lions roaring away in the Devil's den. Let them roar. I am no longer listening. Like Nehemiah up on the wall, I'm too busy doing what God has called me to do to be distracted anymore. I will not come down, there's more important things to do.

Like sharing the good news of God's love and grace.

Like being Christ to others.

Like bringing the Kingdom of God to my little corner of the world.