Running!!

I’m not a runner.  Never was, don’t particularly think I ever will be, in the physical sense.  This body’s just not made for running.  Blobs don’t run particularly well, ya know!  Anyway, this post isn’t about running, in the physical sense.  It’s about a message I just read, by John Piper (Piper reference of the day!). 

I was going through my daily blog reading and found this reference to one of Piper’s sermons.  After reading it, I knew I had to pass it on.  It’s timely for me, in that I’ve been rather sluggish lately.  I’ve let myself get dragged down by an assortment of "things", none of them really bad, but not really good, since they’re dragging me down.  Maybe you don’t let stuff get to you, or you can easily manage life so it doesn’t get in your way, you don’t lose focus. 

I distract easily.  I get focused on something and then something else comes along and distracts me.  Then I realize that I’m distracted from what I was initally doing and get upset that I’ve been distracted.  Then I mope about having been distracted.  Then I try to find something to do to get over being mopey about being distracted and in the process completely forget what it was that I was initially focused on.  Does that ever happen to you? 

This message deals with that distractedness.  It helps realign focus on what is necessary and right.  I’m working on getting my focus back.  I’ve let it drift for some time now.  And in the drifting, I’ve let things further take my focus away.  I thought those things would help, but they’ve only hindered.  They were good and right in themselves, but they weren’t good and right for me.  I’ve been able to rationalize their rightness, but that didn’t make them any more right for me.  So, as is suggested in the sermon, I’m going to go away for a day and focus on getting focused.  I may try to post the outcome of that day away to consider, to reflect, to refocus.  In the meantime:  John Piper’s "Running with the Witnesses"