Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
A distraction is anything which takes your attention or focus away
from what, where God wants you to pay attention to or focus on. Distractions
are also tasks which are not divinely assigned to you. These tasks may appear
to be very urgent but as long as they are nor divinely assigned to you, they
are not priority irrespective of how urgent they appear to be. Ignore them and
focus on your divinely assigned tasks.
Ironically, distractions are not always or necessarily annoying
circumstances or persons. They are sometimes very mouthwatering offers which
are difficult to refuse. The devil made
such offers to Jesus Christ during the temptation but because Jesus was focused
on divine purpose, He ignored the devil’s offers. No offer from anyone was
greater than His divine purpose and mission on planet earth. Please read Luke
Chapter 4 verses 1 to 12 and Matthew Chapter 4 verses 1 to 11.
Sennecherib also made mouthwatering offers of food security to the people
of Judah if they would surrender to him and serve his gods. But the people of
Judah under the godly leadership of King Hezekiah refused to be distracted from
serving Jehovah, the El-Shaddai. They ignored Sennecherib and his threats of
destroying Jerusalem. God honored their decision to focus on Him and destroyed
both Sennecherib and his seemingly invincible army which was destroyed in one
night by a single angel. Please read Isaiah Chapters 36 to 37 for details.
While some distractions come with threats and carrots and supposedly
irresistible mouthwatering offers, some are veiled or disguised attempts to
infiltrate divine purpose and activities in order to distract the work and
bring it to a complete stop. A case in point was when the Jews were rebuilding
the Temple in Jerusalem. Some people offered to help not because they truly
wanted to help but because they wanted to infiltrate the people and the work in
order to stop it and destroy it. But because the leadership of the people were
sensitive to the Spirit of God, they refused such satanic assistance. Though
their refusal culminated in threats and all kinds of ploys to stop the work by
the seemingly helpful oppositions; God ensured that the work continued and the
Temple was completed. Sanballat and his cohorts also attempted to stop the
rebuilding of the broken down walls of Jerusalem; deploying several tricks such
as ridicule, lies, infiltrating some of the Jews, intimidation and threats.
Fortunately. Nehemiah and his men refused to be distracted from divine purpose.
The walls were completely rebuilt to the glory of God.
Beloved, the enemy is well schooled in using distractions to interfere
and stop divine purposes and activities. He attempted to use it against Joseph
in Egypt through the sinful propositions of the very immoral and shameless wife
of Potiphar on a daily basis. As she daily harassed Joseph, hoping Joseph would
cave in; God strengthened Joseph to focus on holy living and divine purpose.
Though Joseph eventually served an unjust prison sentence on account of the
lies she told to mask her sexual harassment of Joseph, God vindicated Joseph
and took him to the pinnacle of divine purpose.
Beloved, be focused on tasks divinely assigned to you. Focus on God,
His will for your life and pursue His divine purpose for your life. Move up in
God. Cut out what you do not need, what is not useful to you; does not add
value to your life so that you will have room to accommodate what brings value
to your life; what you need to achieve divine purpose.
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