Are you distracted? Are you tired? Is everything just too much?

If you feel like everything is just too much, too overwhelming and too painful, I want to share some life-altering truth with you!

Please take the time to read both the first and the second parts of this article. They are both exceedingly important.

Part 1

The gospel of Jesus Christ, is a message of good news of deliverance for all who will receive it from God. It is a gift of salvation, paid for by the sacrifice of God, the death of Jesus and the victorious salvation offered to us by God. All we have to do is to believe with our hearts and confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and then live it out and we can receive freedom from worldliness, distraction, discouragement, sin, shame, guilt, etc. God begins the process of fully setting us free and sanctifying and glorifying us with a single step of faith, wherein we say to Jesus: “Yes I believe! Now what do I do?”

You may be saying to yourself, what does that have to do with the title of this article? I’m glad you asked

First, if you and I are distracted by sin, tired of running from God and feeling under a weight of guilt, shame and emptiness, then God is the answer to this and all we have to do is listen, believe, receive and then walk with God our Savior.

But it might also be that you are already a Christian and you still feel distracted, tired and overwhelmed and you can’t figure out why…

Part 2

Here is some straightforward and difficult truth that you might need to hear.

As Christ followers we are not supposed to act or react like the world. We are not supposed to behave or think or talk like the world. And yet over and over again Christians seem to do these very things.

Why is that?

In large part because the greatest influencers in many Christians lives are secular culture, Hollywood, worldly music, materialism, social media, etc. In other words we begin believing and acting according to the input that we receive and Christians are constantly digesting the world’s content.

So please, if you are already a Christian and you want to get rid of your distraction, your fatigue and the overwhelming discouragement in your life, start with cutting out the input and content from the world. Turn off the TV, turn off your phone, unplug from technology and instead plug in to God with all of the spiritual disciplines of prayer, Bible study, worship, meditation, fasting, etc. Do this for a week or a month or even longer! And watch and see how as God detox’s your mind and soul from the corruption of the world, that all of a sudden you will notice the craziness of the world’s distraction, tiredness and defeat fall off of you and you will be able to walk in the freedom made possible by the amazing grace and perfect provision of Jesus Christ!