One Thing, Don't Be Distracted!

     When I wake up and I have no blog in me to write, God still has something that He wants to show me, and for me to share with you!
     This morning the only thing on my agenda after my study time was dishes, laundry, paying bills and grocery shopping, but as I woke up a song was going through my heart. It's one that we sing in praise at church. "One Thing", since it has been on my heart for the last 2 days when I've woke up I wanted to find it on YouTube and listen to it completely, to grasp the full meaning of the words and to understand why God put it on my heart.  
     Yesterday I looked for it but found Shekinah Glory instead, which is an amazing praise song itself, but I was distracted from the original search, unfortunately I am easily distracted, and quit searching and just listened to that song! But I'm thankful that God brought me back to the point again of looking for this song.~
     This is the title and these are the lyrics~ 
                                

One Thirst by Jeremy Riddle

You say to us seek Your face

Our hearts reply, Your face we seek

And come teach us Lord, reveal Your ways

Anoint us for the greater things

We have gathered with one thirst and hunger

We're here to drink of glory and wonder,

Here to cry out

Come and fill this place

Come and fill this place

And our single wish, our sole desire

To gaze upon Your beauty God

We will not rest, nor will we cease

Till with our eyes, Your face we see

We have gathered with one thirst and hunger 

We're here to drink of glory and wonder,

Here to cry out

Come and fill this place, this place

Come and fill this place, this place

(repeats)

We wait for You to come and show Your glory here today.

We wait for You, God we wait for You!

Alleluia come, Alleluia come, Alleluia come, Alleluia come!

We wait for You to come and show Your glory here today!

     

     But now we're asked, do we really live these words? Do I really wait for God? I was given a song yesterday and then was so easily distracted that I didn't follow through on the first song that God gave me! I do try to follow through on the leadings that God puts in my heart, but too often I'm distracted! How often do we fall short of doing the things that God has given us, because we let ourselves be distracted by other things? How often do we not run the race that God has put before us for that day because we never even get on our "mark"? Or we do get on our mark and start running and then notice we forgot to tie our shoes and bend over to tie them, straighten back up and realize that we are far behind the other runners! At that point we imagine there's no point in even trying! 

     Here we should be feeling challenged to get focused, get ready, get set, GO! 
     So let us run the race that is before us and never give up. We should remove from our lives anything that would get in the way and the sin that so easily holds us back. Hebrews 12:1b NCV

•      Get focused ~ put away distractions!
•      Get ready ~ time with God and His word!
•      Get set ~ time praying
•      GO!  Run the race!

Run the race that God has set for you! Nobody else can run your race! 

Don't sit it out! 

Don't be distracted! 

Don't lose focus!
Don't give up!
Run today to win! 
God is with you, you can do it!