Do It Without Distraction!
"A highway shall be there, and a road, and
it shall be called the Highway of Holiness."
Isaiah 35:8
In 2017, a collision in Texas took the lives of thirteen
people
who were returning from a church retreat. The cause of
the
wreck seems to have involved a truck driving erratically,
and
after the collision, the driver was reportedly overheard saying,
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I was texting.” Experts say America
has
experienced the biggest spike in traffic deaths in about
fifty
years, and much of the blame goes to distracted driving. It’s
a reminder to us all to keep our eyes on the road and our
hands on the wheel for the sake of all around
us.
In a parallel sense, the Bible warns us about
getting
distracted as we go travel the highway of
holiness.
The Amplified Bible Classic Edition says in
Hebrews
12:1-2 like this: “Let us strip off and throw aside
every
encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and the sin which
so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and
entangles
us, and let us run with patient endurance and
steady
and active persistence the
appointed course…looking
away [from all that will distract] to Jesus.”
The Bible says:
“Serve the Lord without distraction”
(1 Corinthians 7:35). Keep your eyes on Him!
"Many of our distractions
may be fathered by the devil."
Thomas Watson
