Have you ever woken up and set out to get some things done, and you never get around to doing them? Like you have your goals all set out, you have a roadmap to how to get things done, you have planned and prepared, even made some small financial commitments, but you never get to find the time to accomplish those things? If that is you, welcome to my world.
For whatever reason, some of the things that are supposed to
be important to me end up being the things I hardly have the time for. I am
super busy doing other things, but not those things that are designed for my
personal growth. And that has been a genuine concern for me and a major prayer
point today.
Paul in Romans 7:15 says, “What he is doing, he does not
understand. What he wills to do, he is not doing, but what he hates is what he
finds himself doing.” And to me, this is very relatable. I have my leading from
God; I have prayed, I have received the strategy, the Lord has shown me the
roadmap to where I should be going, but the problem is taking the step.
For someone going somewhere destined for great things,
something like this may not be strange in your life. The devil can’t stop you
from praying; he can’t stop God from speaking to you and giving you a strategy
to greatness, but he can flood your life with distractions that will prevent
you from accomplishing all that God has called you to be.
The tricky part of all these is that your distractions are
legitimate activities that will come up. They are things that feel so important
that they will not look like distractions. They are in your to-do list; it’s
just the priority that is the question. By the end of the day, you would have
taken care of the bottom items of your list while leaving the top items undone.
One of the most significant inhibitors of growth in the life
of a man is not a lack of strategy or lack of skill; it is the excessive
presence of distractions. If the devil will not stop your skill accusation, and
cannot stop your prayers, he will stop you by distracting your attention and
derailing you from your path.
Let me make this a little more real to you. Let’s say you
have skills in a particular area, you have looked for your job, but it’s not forthcoming;
you have prayed, and the Lord says, “Don’t bother to get a job.” He goes ahead
to show you your path to greatness, given the skill set that you possess.
And then people around you start to tell you that you have
not applied enough. You just can’t give up on applying. Then, every 15 minutes,
you get job alerts from the many job platforms that you have created alerts on.
The time you should be using to build on the strategy the Lord has given you,
you are using to build and rebuild resumes and create cover letters, for job
applications that will come back with the sentence “We are sorry, we will not
be moving forward with you.”
The question now is not about diligence or focus, but what you
are diligent at and what your focus is on. The devil has flooded your heart and
life with distractions that you are heading in the wrong direction, far from
the goal that God has shown to you.
Sometimes it comes with tiny contrary ideas, more like your
own shortcut version of what God has laid out before you. In some cases, you
have told yourself you need money to start off. You spend so much time trying
to raise the capital with no success and with plenty of frustration that you
lose sight of what God has told you and the direction He has asked you to take.
If this is your story as much as it is mine, then we need
something more than diligence to walk through the doors of abundance that the
Lord has opened to us. If God has blessed you with His promise to bless you and
He has given you the blueprint to your road to success, don’t bother adding to or
removing from that blueprint; just follow it blindly. God will lead you to
where His grace will not lie in wait for you. And this is one of the steps to
combat distractions.
Challenges come in various forms; it could be a closed door
in your pursuit of a breakthrough, or a health issue, a financial issue, a marital issue, or even a
family issue. But know now that distraction is also a big challenge that should
be dealt with, with as much seriousness and prayers, as you would deal with all
these other issues that I have mentioned.
Distractions prevent you from hitting your goal and
achieving greatness. It inhibits your growth and prosperity and leads to
frustration, which leads to emotional issues, and then mental issues and
possibly death. This is how dangerous distractions can be.
When people complain of stagnancy in life, it could be as a
result of a lack of knowledge (God says, “My people perish for lack of
knowledge.” Hosea 4:6), it could as a result of your inability to hear from God
to know where He is leading you, it could God training you and preparing you
for something great that requires you to wait, or it could be a result of
distractions.
The problem of distraction is one that you need to pray hard
and seek the help of God about. It is a very subtle destroyer, a time waster,
and a destiny killer. You should not take the issue of distractions lightly if
you are someone faced with that challenge. The devil uses distractions to steal
your time and keep you stuck in one place.
Today’s blog speaks to me as much as to anyone who finds
this topic relatable, and it has been a challenge that I have been praying
about. But God is faithful; He is not leaving me to fight this battle of
distraction alone. Because I have so much that I am responsible for, I get
overwhelmed and I feel the burnout. For me, every task is a priority. But God
has not abandoned me yet, and the management of my time is one thing I have
handed over to Him, and I can see His hand helping me.
Look around you and observe the trend in your life. You may
be just a step to your breakthrough, and the only thing the devil is using to
hold you down is distraction. You are skilled, productive, and strategic, yet
you are not hitting the mark because your mind is flooded with noise.
Sifting through the noise can be a huge task. Everything is
important; you don’t want to appear selfish or self-seeking, but too many tasks
are slowing down your momentum. This is a big issue that is worth praying
about.
Even the battle of your time is not yours to fight; let God
fight it for you, and just relax and feel the noise quietened around you with
peace that helps you focus on the items of utmost priority in your life and
growth. He is doing it for me, I know He’ll do it for you too. That peace for
focus comes from Jesus. John 14:27 tells us that Jesus has given us peace. If
you don’t feel it yet, go ahead and ask again in prayer.
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