DISTRACTED

II Chronicles 19-22

3:20 a.m.  Can’t sleep.  Up drinking chamomile tea and sitting on my back porch.  For once I beat the birds up.  Not many distractions at 3 a.m.  This passage starts out so well as the people of Judah live out lives dependent upon God, then they become distracted by power, ships and wounds.  Humans are so easily distracted, especially now that technology offers us so many ways to be that way.  The greatest distraction of all, however, is ourselves.  We are always trying to distract ourselves from thinking about, considering and meditating upon God.  God always requires our complete attention and we are often unwilling to offer that.  So we distract ourselves. 

You know what the good news is?  God is never distracted from us!   “How precious are your thoughts about me God.  They cannot be numbered.  I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!  And when I wake up, (even at 3a.m.) you are still with me!”  Psalms 139:17-18