The million dollar question...

I'm going to take a minute and share with you what is coming up in my blog. I am going to take the next few weeks and study a question that I have been pondering for a while, and am struggling with in my own life. The question being, "how do you understand what God's purpose is for your life?" I am sure that many many many of us have asked this question more than once in our lives! And with all the different opinions on the answer to this question I want construct a concrete answer instead of a opinion based on feelings and thoughts. I am going to take a very biblical approach to this question. If any of you reading this have a more specific question within the topic of "God's purpose" leave a comment (either on facebook or the blog) and I'll do my best to answer them inside of my own answer. Please don't be shy to toss a question out there. I want to hear what everyone else is thinking and asking, and I hope that maybe we can end some confusion together. This shall be an adventure...

peace + love = jesus

The Devil comes to lie, cheat, steal, and........distract?

If you have a minuet get distracted. I must begin by confessing that I struggle with distraction. This disease, if I can be so harsh to call it, has recently infected my being. According to my Mac dictionary distraction is defined as this, "a thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else." Upon reading this I decided to ask myself the obvious question...what am I getting distracted from? It is easy to know when and what is distracting me, but to be distracted you must have a "something else" to be taken away from. What is your "something else?" On a small scale it is easy to identify. Maybe the facebook is taking your attention away from homework. But on a large scale, on a life sized scale, it may not be so easy to identify. How many times in our lives to we find ourselves, and others, asking, "what is God purpose/plan for my life?" I would suggest to you that the reason we are so often asking this questions is because something is taking our full attention away from it. You see the Devil does not need to remove God's plan from our lives. He only needs to simply take way our attention...our focus. How many times in our lives are we living in the distraction the Devil has dangled in front of us? Are you living in it right now?

If one of the many definitions of sin is, "missing the mark" is it possible to declare distraction as a sin? Are the distractions the Devil uses causing you to miss your mark? Let us all not be so naive towards what I believe to be one of the Devil's most powerful tools. So if you feel that you are being distracted ask yourself what you are being distraction from. Focus your attention back to your something else.

peace + love = jesus