Cutting out the Distractions

Its been quite some time since I have updated this. I would love to be able to say that it’s because I have been spending all my time improving my relationship with God, and on my self as a person, But that would be lying to all 2 of all my followers. 

I recently was having a conversation with a good friend of mine who happens to be the youth pastor I am interning under, about priorities and distractions. I have known him for a very long time, and throughout all the years of knowing him he has always been a big gamer. He had gotten a lot better than the old W.O.W days where you might not see him for a few days but he still played quite frequently. We got on to the topic of priorities and distractions because I was trying to get him to indulge in a game of Madden with me. He refused and explained to me that he gave up video games. He told me about him sitting down and figuring out how much time he spent playing them and how it took priority in almost everything in his life. He also said something that struck me and has caused me to think about my distractions, he said I don’t wanna wake up 30 years from now and not have accomplished what God wanted me to do because of video games or any other distractions. 

That statement has been floating around in my head since we had that convo a few weeks back, and it is causing me to make some changes in my life. Cut out the distractions and get my priority’s straight. 

Yesterday I made the first change in what I believe to be in the right direction by giving my 42” plasma television to my Sister and brother in law for a least a few months. I don’t think watching tv is bad, because I am still going to watch it. However what I do think is bad, is watching is as much as I was, and also just laying in bed watching it all the time. And when I say all the time I pretty much mean all the time. If I wasn’t at church, work, or a friends, chances are good you could catch me posted up in my bed either watching tv or playing a game of madden. Usually with a mt dew and some sort of snack right by my side.

I don’t want to live like that anymore. I KNOW God is calling me to do better things in my life than lay around watching tv. I don’t want to wake up in 30 years and not have accomplished what I know God wants me to accomplish.

So tonight I took the first step, The first night without a tv in my room I finished a book I have been needing to finish for over a month. Read the last 70+ pages tonight (which for me is a big accomplishment cuz Im new at the whole reading books thing). I also read the bible tonight on my own for the first time in months. Its amazing what you can accomplish when you cut out all the distractions and focus on what really matters. 

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