You get caught reading billboards or daydreaming when the traffic light turns green. Just as your family sits down to dinner the phone rings and it's a telemarketer who tells you that you must switch to her long distance company. After a stressful day, you are about to leave for an important meeting and as you walk to your car you realize one of your tires is flat. There have been so many calls, to see so many visitors, and to counsel members. On top of that my stray thoughts and the hum drum day to day duties have all taken their toll on my creative abilities.
Daily distractions are unavoidable and irrepressible.
They will happen and we can't change that. However, I want to talk with you about something much more significant. As born-again believers, we are called by Almighty God to live our lives by the priorities of the Word of God. However, the wicked one, Satan schemes and toils to distract us from those priorities. The sad truth is, he's often very successful.