In a paradox of true faith, believers should actually draw encouragement from their discouragement. Draw encouragement from your discouragement.
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Here are five helps from Steele on how to direct our eyes towards heaven in a room full of distractions. There is no coherence, no reason, in this” (37). “Is it reasonable that you should cry out for the Spirit, and think on the flesh? Be hearing about another world and ruminating on this ? Your eyes directed to heaven, and your heart in the ends of the earth?. He warns Christians about the duplicity that distracted worship represents. Steele argues that distraction should be fought because God commands undistracted worship (1 Samuel 12:24). Therefore, we can take heart knowing that distraction in worship can be fought. But distraction is our active choice to briefly escape something demanding. Often we think about distraction in passive terms, blaming social media or our devices for distracting us. Steele’s book is a call for believers to take purposeful action. Its author, Richard Steele (1629–1692), meditated on a phrase from 1 Corinthians 7:35: “That ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.” He wrote the book after noticing his own mind wandering in worship, noting, “My own disease caused me to study the cure.” That is why it was so encouraging to find an old book (first published in 1673) called Remedy for Wandering Thoughts in the Worship of God. “The battle for undistracted worship on Sunday morning really begins on Saturday evening.” If distraction is technology’s fault, then we have no way to escape the problem without unplugging all of our devices and holing up in a cave somewhere. But that reaction concedes defeat too easily. Blame It on Technology?īecause temptations toward distractions often arrive through our devices, distraction can feel like a new problem unique to our current technological age. But the burdens of our week, the tensions of our morning, the children by our side, the anxiety of our upcoming schedule, and the wandering of our thoughts all conspire to distract us. We arrive with the intent to worship Jesus with focus. Since sitting down to type this article, my email reported two new messages, my phone alerted me to a new text, and Spotify just finished its third consecutive commercial - and I’m only finishing the second paragraph! Times are few and far between when we are completely undistracted.Īnd distractions do not stay in the car when we enter into church on a Sunday morning. I’m guessing that, as you read this, several things are demanding your attention.
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