What Is YOUR Distraction?
Oh he's good, at least he thinks he is. Satan , Lucifer, whatever you want to call the the fallen angel that hit this old earth with a THUD. He has to distract you to get you off course. You see, that's what he needs when you are listening to God. To distract you from your ministry, from your mission, from life, or even distract you from God's word.
We tend to think of distractions as major events. Some are life threatening of course; but, some are merely habits. WE allow social media to distracts us from people. WE allow people to distract us from work. WE allow work to distract us from life. We disassociate and many times its to the point of destroying our own lives. The life He gave us. The life He planned. We choose to put other things before God, before our family, before our mission and yet we allow that to determine if we're even good enough when it isn't a positive outcome.
Social media or even emails first thing in the morning tend to get the world in our head before we let God in. It also distracts us from those meaningful and much needed conversations with loved ones. It all becomes time missed, what ifs, and I should haves. Regrets.
This week that old fallen angel placed a pretty good distraction in front of me. Most of us will have degenerative disc disease. Essentially its how much and how fast the discs in your spine degenerate. It can be a very slow, almost pain free process and it can be a very fast, very painful process. For me, as always, it's somewhere middle of the road. It became my focus and distraction.
Just this week I made a declaration to friends that I'd pulled the breaks on part of the ministry God had set in front of me. You see, He provided the recipes and the plan for Whisk & Swirl. In that plan He included my hardheadedness and sometimes even stupidity. He knew what was up. He knew this week was up, I truly believe that. But he brought in a reminder. I was asked if I am having such issues, such pain, what does that mean for W&S. Then it hit me. Bolts of lighting do that from time to time. lol. This too shall pass. God has a plan. EVERYTHING comes together for His purpose. He would not give me W & S, it's story, and His story to tell, just to let something as insignificant as back pain stop the show.
He will lead me through it. He will both provide the path to corrective healing and show me my next steps. He will give me the strength and determination to move forward. To make those videos to voice over, that lead to this website for the blogs that will reach the person or persons He intends for them. He will do it. I just have to step back and allow myself to be the vessel he intended and literally step out of His way and my own way.
So I started by showing up. I will also work bake day this week. He even provided a special request for me to work through on bake day. So, I will do what I know should be done. I will do the exercises. I will take the minimal pain meds. He will do his thing. He will give me strength. He will give me the knowledge and the words. He will guide the camera lens. He will calm my nerves. He will get His story out to whom it is intended. He is good. All the time. He gave me the path to remove the distraction and now there is only a choice to make : move forward on that path or allow myself to fumble through the distraction. I think I'll take the former.