Losing your Focus
Now, I have to keep saying this; some of you are losing your focus...you are sitting there studying with your mind wandering; you check the clock and it is time for your favorite sitcom, so you spend the next hour watching the ungodly, then your come back to your study table, and wonder why you cannot get involved. Do you suppose God is going to wait on you while you sit there taking in foolishness? You have not given your heart completely to God; you are double-minded as James says:
2My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (Ja.1.2ff)
'No doubting...', that is, if anything, ANYTHING that is bothering your conscience, you will not receive anything from the Lord, because your mind is not fully on God.
There are innumerable things to distract you, but you must exercise self-control. One way is to choose a time when things are quiet. If you have kids to take care of, God will compensate; if you have to work, God knows and will compensate if you put your had to the plow when you do have time to study. You have to stay focused.
Elijah
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