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Rachel here...who am i? Hmmm...that's a question i never really know how to answer.
All i can say is i'm a child of God journeying through this road called life with my finest blessings - my family, friends and folks i bump into along the way.
Who i am don't matter. What does matter is that we connect and encourage each other along our different paths that lead to the same destination -
Our Father face to face!
So ewe (pronounced 'You' meaning lamb; the meaning of my name) see....it's about the little (n big) things in life that connect us to one another (unity in diversity) and bring us closer to God.
Ephesians 4:4-7
"We are all one body, we have the same Spirit, and we have all been called to the same glorious future.
There is only one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
and there is only one God and Father, who is over us all."
Make yourself at home, voice your thoughts...i'd love to hear from you!
Love n peace out!
12:18 AM
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Distractions...
What distracts you? And what does this distraction distract you from?
Last year was a year i heard alot about distractions. And i must admit, i've been distracted too. The pressures of having a good life...distracted me from the source of life more than once or even trice. And a conversation i had with a new friend in the Philippines opened my eyes anew to an old thing...
See this friend was talking about his old life marked by gangs of friends and being involved in things that wasted away his life and brought sadness to his family. And when God intervened, he changed. And now he was contemplating serving God fulltime. As he was sharing his heart, he suddenly mentioned his need to stay and grow in the church. Or he was afraid he'd become... ... ... as his mind was loading the translation into English, i offered the word: You're afraid you'd become...distracted? "No", and in about a second he found the word he was looking for, "Im afraid i'd become tempted".
The bulb flashed above my head and i thought its actually kinda better to have less vocabulary sometimes. See whatever distracts us away from God are temptations. The Bible uses the word temptations, i've yet to find a verse with the word 'distraction'. And in urban cultures, perhaps the term distraction has watered down the weight of the matter. When i hear temptation, the word 'sin' is close by...the weight is felt.
My friend continued to share that he was afraid he'd be tempted by friends, earning, living etc away from God back to his old life patterns, back to his old life. Are you distracted? What is your distraction? Does it distract you from God? Its temptation - and the Word of God has the solution so you'd progress to happily ever after, not back to before.
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Each of us should live a life stirring enough to start a movement...We should love unquenchably,dream unfalteringly, and work unceasingly.
- Max Lucado, On The Anvil