Proverbs 4:20 My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words. Don’t lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart, for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body.
At this time of year our minds can suffer from overload through trying to work out what to buy everybody for Christmas! I wonder if anyone else is like that?😊 It’s hard then to concentrate on our time with the Lord and to hear what He’s saying. For you, your mind may be filled with work problems, family concerns, planning the weekend or a hundred and one other busy things that take up our time quite legitimately. They are attention seekers!
I find the only way to deal with it is to stop focusing on the thing that’s grabbing my attention all the time and completely look away from it till my mind can clear. Whatever we look at is going to have our attention and our verse says to pay attention instead to what God says in His word.
There are three places God wants His word to be - in front of our eyes, in our ears and deep in our hearts. In other words although it’s easy to be constantly on our phones or tablets and have ‘Screenitis’ we have to put the words of scripture in front of our eyes instead! There’s a big reward for doing it though, it’s life and healing to our bodies because it acts like medicine.
Very often we don’t realise the healing properties of just reading and listening to the Word of God but it is a promise from God so we can believe it. Next time you feel like you have ‘Screenitis’, or ‘Worryitis’ or any other ‘itis’ causing your mind to get bogged down and trying to take all your attention, just stop and read a scripture for a little while and let it minister peace to your mind and healing to your soul. You wont regret it.😊
Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.
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