Every now and again, I get very critical of myself and usually that just leads to me feeling bad at myself, as I demonstrated the other day. God, in His infinite coolness (omni-coolness, if you will) spoke to my heart last night at our weekly InterVarsity Large Group meeting. We had a guest speaker, our staff worker from last year, and she spoke about Luke 10:38-42, the story of Mary and Martha. I've written about this previously, but I got some new insight last night.
When it comes down to it, we are far too easily distracted. And when we're distracted, we quickly lose our focus on God. We put our treasure elsewhere and, as Matthew 6:21 aptly states, Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
The best thing we can do is to work at returning our focus to God and pray that God will help us in that effort. In the passage I mentioned above, Martha is distracted by her many tasks, so distracted in fact, that she doesn't realize that her sister Mary is really doing what the Lord wills. The exact same thing happens far too often in my life. I'll get distracted by work, laziness, service, or a number of other things and struggle so hard because my relationship with Christ isn't right. Yet, when I try to set it right, I just get distracted. It's a viscious cycle, but God can break us out of it and set us right. And that's what I'm praying He'll do in me now.
