dear martha.

“Our thoughts create our reality -- where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.”

vanity. sidetracked.

you've spent countless hours "serving me". you've read hundreds of books about me. you can quote nearly the entire bible. you've won every debate on doctrine & theology. you've become distracted with "much". but one thing is needed. come sit at my feet. come listen, i have things i want to say to you. i have some secrets to tell you. i want to be intimate with you. here's the key to your prayer closet (you lost it. i found it under one of your books).

come hang with me. lift up your eyes and see the dying. zoom your lens unto the onething that is needed. do me a favor, crop out everything else and focus on Me. i do it for you everyday. my eyes are on you, seeking for the worshipper inside of you.

have you become sidetracked?

how many hours one our Journey have we focused on the things that don't even matter?

in eternity, God's not going to ask you "how many verses could you quote?", He's going to ask "did you live it?". He's not going to ask you how many theological or doctrinal debates did you win, what He is going to ask is "how many of My kids did you bring back to me?" there's only ONE THING that matters.Him. pleasing the Saviour. is your table full of books and yet your prayer closet unvisited?

try doing this: for one week.crop out all the distractions and hang out with Jesus. make your prayer closet your home.

this was the "new noel is not amzing version" of:

LUKE 10:38-42

"There is great danger of being corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ; 2 Cor 11:3. Satan desires to destroy us; and his great object is readily accomplished if he can seduce Christians from simple devotedness to the Redeemer; if he can secure corruption in doctrine or in the manner of worship, and can produce conformity in dress and in the style of living to this world. Formerly, he excited persecution. But in that he was foiled. The more the church was persecuted the more it grew. Then he changed his ground. What he could not do by persecution he sought to do by corrupting the church; and in this he has been by far more successful. This can be done slowly but certainly; effectually but without exciting suspicion. And it matters not to Satan whether the church is crippled by persecution or its zeal destroyed by false doctrine and by conformity to the world. His aim is secured; and the power of the church destroyed. The form in which he now assails the church is by attempting to seduce it from simple and hearty attachment to the Saviour. And, O! in how many instances is he successful." - a guy named Barnes