Deuteronomy 6:5 (NKJV) 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
It takes strength and discipline to say no to things that try to pull on our hearts at times, like answering our cell phones or texting in the middle of prayer time, church or while reading our Bible!
How many know what I’m talking about? You know, when we let them interrupt us and say, “Oh, God will understand”.
Don’t let the cell phone interfere with our God time.
If we let our phone get in the way of these things, we will begin to feel a distance between us and God. The distance caused by interference will grow until there is nothing left.
Our time with God will be lost and our passion slowly starts to diminish. Why? Because He is taking a back seat.
Last summer I was noticing that I was beginning to struggle with distractions. I had a hard time focusing.
I thought, “what is this?”. I asked God to help me stay close to Him. I felt like something was trying to put distance between us.
He showed me that my phone was becoming a distraction. My phone went everywhere with me, and because of that I had this constant distraction and lack of focus.
You see, loving God is not just a feeling we have; it is keeping Him in a “first-place position” in everything we do. In other words, nothing comes between us, and if it does, we do something about it. He is our all!
Cell Phones aren’t bad in and of themselves. They can be very helpful if used properly. But if we don’t keep them in their place, they can be a huge distraction, preventing us from focusing on the things we need to be doing.
Put the cell phone in its rightful place. Show God how much we love Him by keeping Him first, and giving Him our utmost attention. The other things can wait, not Him. Amen.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
401-315-0902
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