Brush up!

How's our attention span? In this day and age it's so easy to be distracted. It's no surprise, given the amount of phone/internet/media related interaction in our daily lives.

Let's start today on a practical note: let's cut out attention-grabbers during our devotional time. We may have heard the classic challenge: 'What if we spent as much time reading the Bible as we did on social media/watching TV?' This may seem such a clich but it's a fair point. Let's keep notifications and texts out of sight to honour him. From there, we can invite him into our other time. Our Bible and prayer time with him set us up for the rest of our day, including what we read online and send to others.

Practical tip two: reading the Bible daily is good for us. Doing it in the best time for us makes it better and easier. Are we a morning or evening person? When we're most likely to take in what we're reading is the best time to get stuck into Scripture. There will always be something pressuring us or trying to distract us. But when we determine to focus on God, our relationship with him will only grow.



So what now? Read a passage in the Bible (maybe some of SoulFood below), then open a newsfeed and spend time praying for the people and situations that pop up, based on what you've just read in God's word. Brush up on your God stuff.





— SCRIPTURE —

'Open my eyes to see wonderful things in your word.' Psalm 119:18 TLB
— SOULFOOD —

1 Sam 27-31, Matt 28:11-20, Ps 63 , Pro 22:17-23