Distractions

Life at times can feel like a never ending checklist.

I’m completing one thing on the list to find myself with another task or goal to now complete as quick as I was able to speak the word “done”.

The pressure to get it all done is so stressful, that I catch myself at times not even trying.

I kept saying people are gonna look down on me.

I kept thinking about “people”.

But who were the people I kept bringing up anyways?

The people who are questioning their own life and decisions?

Or the people who are secretly hoping something will change for them?

Because the truth is no one really knows what they are doing.

So when I really got down to it, the “people” weren't people at all.

It was me.

I was the critic, I was pulling myself down with the thoughts I had of myself.

And then I had to remind myself, I’m not who I say I am, I’m who God says I am.

My own voice shouldn’t be louder than the voice of God.

And my goals shouldn't take up all of my attention that I lose sight of God.

Because when all is said and done, it wont be about how far down my checklist I got.

It’ll be about if I guarded my heart or not. If I obeyed His voice. Did I keep His ways?

Was I able to kill my flesh? Did I choose Jesus above everything else?

These are the kind of questions I need to be asking and being able to answer wholeheartedly, yes!

The distractions are real y'all ! And empty! They are only able to satisfy for the moment. Not like God who tells us that when we go with Him we will never cry again. It wont be just for a moment but it will be forever.