Watch your steps, or distraction

Keep your eyes on me (Judges 7:17, NLT).

Dear Friends,

One morning a farmer told his wife that he was going out to plow the "south forty."

He got off to an early start so he could oil the tractor. He needed more oil, so he went to the shop to get it. On the way to the shop he noticed the pigs weren't fed. So he proceeded to the corn crib, where he found some sacks of feed. The sacks reminded him that his potatoes were sprouting. Then when he started for the potato pit, he passed the woodpile and remembered that his wife wanted wood in the house. As he picked up a few sticks, an ailing chicken passed by. He dropped the wood and picked up the chicken.

When evening arrived, the frustrated farmer had not even gotten to the tractor, let alone to the field.

Have you ever intended to do something you knew was very important, but found yourself in a similar situation -- distracted by many other seemingly important tasks, which kept you from accomplishing your main objective?

Distraction is a common temptation to keep us from doing what is most important. Yes, all these little things may be important, but if we are not careful we will find ourselves drifting aimlessly from one project to another, and ineffective. We need to be focused.

For many years, one of the first things I do every morning is to evaluate all the day's competing demands against a single criterion: How will each opportunity enable me to maximize my contribution to helping fulfill the Great Commission? I prioritize accordingly. Some of the demands go to the top of my list, some down the list, and some get eliminated.

The principal calling on my life is to help fulfill the Great Commission, and by God's grace, He has enabled me to remain focused. A chief characteristic of Campus Crusade for Christ is that we have remained focused and have not allowed ourselves to be diverted along the many possible rabbit trails that have come along to tempt us. This, too, is God's grace and protection, and a main reason the movement has exploded to 196 countries with a full-time staff of more than 27,000 and with up to 550,000 trained volunteers.

Every believer is expected to follow priorities: God first, spouse second, children third, and ministry fourth. Whether as a minister or layperson, God has called all of us to help fulfill the Great Commission.

We all should prioritize our lives in this manner, and stay focused. Then when we are on our way to our "south forty," we will not be distracted by the likes of pigs, wood piles and sick chickens in our lives.

Yours for helping to fulfill the Great Commission each year until our Lord returns,

Bill Bright

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