“Love the Lord with all your heart…” Mark 12:28
iPhones are one of the greatest inventions I am aware of, but they are also one of the greatest time sucking and potential filled devices in the face of the earth. Imagine and picture this – you’re shopping on Amazon, a phone call comes, a text message and three emails arrive and you’ve been expecting all of them – but then your timer rings and a face time call from your spouse calls. Which one do you answer? Three hours later you realize that the sale on Amazon is now over, but the airplane flights for your vacation were scheduled for the wrong day, and your friend calls and says, “Are you mad at me?” You wonder why and he says, “I wondered why you didn’t show up for coffee?” Wow, this has never happened to me, but I can imagine it happening.
Distractions are real and we live in a culture that distracts us constantly from the “main” thing: Jesus.
I received the following from a friend recently. It is a quote from the ministry of Walk Thru the Bible. I appreciate this quote from yesterday because I know we all struggle at one level or another to honor God on Sunday while wanting to live however we want the rest of the week. I pray this insight from Walk Thru the Bible’s daily email will be a good reminder to you, as it is to me, to make EVERYTHING about our lives about The One so many of us celebrated yesterday.
“Christians cannot compartmentalize their lives into the secular and the sacred. All truth is God’s truth, and anything done for Him whether “religious” or not is sacred. Jesus equates loving your fellow man with loving Him. He equates serving those in need with serving Him. He equates caring for the suffering as caring for Him. You can love your fellow man without loving Christ, but you cannot love Christ without loving your fellow man (Emphasis mine). Whether you are worshiping the Lord or washing the feet of a bum on skid row, it is sacred and holy work if it is done out of love for the Lord.” Quiet Walk Devotional 3/31/2024