Kind of had a God moment this morning. Victoria and I have a saying when dealing with A&A "Something more exciting". I use this with Victoria when she is trying to get them to leave her toys alone or her attempts to try to get them away from something isn't working. "Something more exciting" is our code for "make something else so exciting that they won't want what they have anymore". It almost always works!
In Bible study today Beth Moore talked about captivity and the effects that truth and lies have on our captivity. How Christ sets the captives free through truth and how Satan sets the free captive through lies. My mind kind of wondered for a bit and drifted off and I couldn't figure out why "Something more exciting" kept running through my mind.
This is kind of what Satan does to us. Distracts us from our walk by saying "Something more exciting". I have the attention span of the squirrel on the movie Hoodwinked and that Something More seems to always catch my eye. Most of the time I don't catch that Satan is distracting me until I have already pulled away from God. Thank God he always is waiting when I do a 180 and head towards Him again.
Then it hit me. How many times has God said that to me? In the areas of my life where I am in full captivity spiritually how many times has God said to me "I have something so much more exciting than the thing that you are holding onto."? I am sure more than I care to know. Here's to not getting distracted and running on towards what God has "more exciting" for me.
3 comments:
That's too funny. That what mom said I would do with Peter. He would have the toy I really wanted, and instead of throwing a fit...I would find another toy to play with energetically and then here comes Peter grabbing it out of my hand and I go get the toy I really wanted in the first place.
Oh, Kelly, you have such wisdom! Thanks for sharing, dear friend! He DOES have something more exciting. Don't you love the study?!
Kelly, that was so beautifully written. I am going to remember that. I use "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, come into my heart, cast the devil out" and keep repeating that until it doesn't sound like a scream but more of a soft prayer. Helps a lot. But with the grandkids, THIS is the perfect solution. Big kids, grandkids, parents, aunts, sisters, brothers, dogs, cats and especially those that drive us to drink wine!!! Love you so, Kel!!
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