We need to stop pausing for distractions. God calls us to keep going, stay focused. Whatever is of God will fall in line to your walk. You won’t have to pause to get to it, as long as your in the will of God it will fall in place. We keep making pitstops because we keep allowing things that don’t belong in our walk with God to draw our attention. Worse part we know clearly that we shouldn’t be flirting with it or paying attention to it, but we still do… If we go deeper to what flirting means, let me give you a couple definitions that google states. 1. behave as though attracted to or trying to attract someone, but for amusement rather than with serious intentions. 2. deliberately expose oneself to (danger or difficulty).”the need of some individuals to flirt with death”. I wish you could see my reaction for the second one… That one is rough, deep and strong. Sometimes we do flirt with sin and we do that by pausing and playing around with it for too long. Sometimes we don’t realize that we make a pitstop for sin… We know sin leads us to death, we know it kills our relationship with God and brings us away from his presence.

Still, God is so merciful and redirects us to him. But we should just listen clearly the first time and keep walking. I remember when I was so fixated on an idea that I knew wasn’t the right time. Something I knew God didn’t want my attention on right now. I was trying to handle it or control things on my time. I remember crying out of frustration and my heart was so sadden. I remember God say clearly… he said it in Spanish “recoge tu barra y sigue caminando” translates to “pick up your rod and keep walking”. That ministered so much to me because I felt in my heart that he was telling me, keep going. You are not done, you’ve got a race to finish. Keep walking and don’t get distracted…

In Hebrews 12:1-2 says, “Therefore, since we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let’s rid ourselves of every obstacle and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking only at Jesus, the originator and perfecter of the faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God”.

The Bible tells us this for a reason, as we are running this race in life we need to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus. The way we are going to finish this race is if we keep running. We can’t allow things that will only distract our race to have way. Okay maybe we sinned, are you going to stop and dwell on it.. Or maybe we’ve been entertaining something that we know right now is not part of our race. Sometimes we focus on things that keep our attention for too long. We should keep moving forward and not focus on the past. We should be growing and growing… We should not be staying in our sins… We should be healing, changing and being fruitful. We need to stop making pitstops where God doesn’t call us too. We need to know and understand what God is calling us to do. Maybe you relate to this, maybe you’ve felt like you’ve been entertaining the wrong things in this season of your life. But I say to you like my Father in Heaven said to me “recoje to barra y sigue caminando…” . You got this! Keep persevering and don’t give room to distractions.
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