POP Church

This Sunday we learned about the level of commitment that God longs to see in our lives toward him. We took a deep look at the difference between a life lived out of mediocrity or a life lived out of deep responsibility, where we can offer and experience the best of the best. The choice is ours; the responsibility is ours the challenge is to remove the distractions.  Distractions are the things in our lives that remove god from being the source of our significance and happiness. The bible has another word for distractions, “idols”.  When we think of idols immediately images of golden calves dance in our heads, but anything in our life that distracts us from keeping Jesus the one thing that is our source of happiness and significance becomes an idol.  When we keep our focus and make Jesus the one thing then our lives will be a pleasing sacrifice to him and we will offer and experience the best of the best.  So where do we begin?   Here are some suggestions:

1. Keep a log of how your time is spent all week long; chances are you’ll discover some unhealthy patterns that could use changing.
2. Log how much time you are spending in personal time with God. 
3. Begin a list of everything that might be a distraction both good and bad in your life.
4. Look to create some alone time each day, you’ll soon discover the distractions.

God’s promise to us is that if we draw near to him then he will draw near to us. In other words if we begin to remove the distractions he will be the source of our significance and happiness and he promises joy unspeakable!

Pastor Anthony