Its not the whip!

 

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

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July 9th - Saturday - A Father Daughter/Son conference called PROTECTOR! Speakers on how to protect your son and daughter Emotionally, physically, sexually, socially and spiritually. Ages 10 and up if you feel your student is mature enough. Price $100 per family. At HillSpring Church New prague south of the Twin Cities

Just landed a speaker who will challenge you how to keep your kids safe from human trafficking… you say well my kid will never fall into that… oh not so fast. You obviously don’t know what you are talking about… so get ready to sign up! 

 

 

When you see a lion tamer in the cage and he has a lion clawing and snarling as he raises a chair up in his face and cracks the whip… you gotta admire a guy dumb enough to try to defend himself from a lion with just a whip. But things are never the way you see them…

Its not the whip… its the chair. The whip just simply adds excitement to the performance. The crack and snap of the whip and the lion tamer looking distressed… oh my scary. But actually it is the chair that is the weapon (or at least thats the way the lion sees it) The lion sees 4 appendages coming at him… four legs and not knowing which one will strike, they get confused and just fall into somewhat of a trance like state. 

 

I recently saw a movie that robbed the federal reserve of a bunch of Gold. But none of the gold was missing and in fact it seemed like they had failed close to the end of the movie… but in reality it was all a smoke screen… they did in fact steal the gold and no one figured it out until it was too late. The Robbers had explosions, and hostages, victims of abuse and all kinds of diversions… but that was just what they wanted you to focus on… diversions. Like a good magician they create an illusion steering your logical mind away from reality so that you create in your own imagination what you perceive to be reality… and before its to late… boom.

 

Lets look at reality and then check out the diversion. 

Master what is the greatest command…

Luke 10:27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

 

Hard cold reality. Jesus said the greatest command is to Love God with all your heart, mind and soul. Thats it… simple direct, not confusing, easy to know and work on… Basically read our bibles, pray, seek him and obey

 

Ahhh but we as Christians have been distracted by politics, policies, border patrol, LGBQT, BLM, Anti gun this and inflation… not to mention wars, oil consumption and coming asteroids.

Now the truth is as Christians we should still find it easy to focus on what really matters i.e. Love God with all we got - and why? Because he already told us all of these things will be coming down the pipe as time gets short here on earth. So I can just focus on the greatest commandment. 

But how easily we get distracted from what matters most… Loving Jesus, spending time with him.

Don’t get me wrong, as a follower of Christ I have strong biblical opinions on lots of issues… but I do not let it distract me from what is most important. 

 

Finally, you may not realize it, but distraction is a very powerful way to make us feel like we are involved in life and or keep our minds off of our weaknesses or excuses… don’t fall into either of these traps. In fact recognize if you are walking in either of these realms. If God gave us specifically the greatest command… and its written down, black and white easy to read… then lets do it with all our heart, mind and soul.