ONE THINGSample

I don’t know about you, but I am easily distracted. There’s a lot going on. Have you ever picked up your phone to maybe read your bible plan, but instead you see a notification that someone you don’t know commented on your Instagram post, and then all of a sudden you've spent the last 47 minutes looking at memes? And you forgot to get to your bible plan? I have!

As humans, we are more distracted than ever. The statistics prove that over the past 20 years, the average attention span has decreased by 50%. That’s astonishing.

AW Tozer says this in his book, The Set of the Sail:

'Among the enemies to devotion none is so harmful as distractions. Whatever excites the curiosity, scatters the thoughts, disquiets the heart, absorbs the interests or shifts our life focus from the kingdom of God within us to the world around us—that is a distraction; and the world is full of them. Our science-based civilization has given us many benefits but it has multiplied our distractions and so taken away far more than it has given...

'The remedy for distractions is the same now as it was in earlier and simpler times, viz., prayer, meditation and the cultivation of the inner life. The psalmist said “Be still, and know,” and Christ told us to enter into our closet, shut the door and pray unto the Father. It still works...

'Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us want fewer things; let us walk in the Spirit; let us fill our minds with the Word of God and our hearts with praise. In that way we can live in peace even in such a distraught world as this. “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.” '

How then are we to live?

The answer is in Psalm 27:4.

We need to focus back on the ONE THING. The ONE THING that is most important.

When Martha complains to Jesus that Mary isn’t helping, she is all flustered, distracted, and frustrated. But Jesus just highlights that Mary has simply chosen to focus on the ONE THING.

WHAT IS YOUR ONE THING?

Over the next few days, we will explore 5 key elements to help us rediscover the ONE THING.