Live Free with Josh Howerton - Are You Living Distracted or Devoted? | Ep. 352 | Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

When you are a doer, isn’t it easy to get distracted by what needs to be done? As we look at our passage for today, we can see that a change of perspective allows us to get things done without anxiety or distraction. We all need to prioritize our connection with Him, which recenters and reprioritizes our focus correctly. For more information, visit lakepointe.church/dailydrive

Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your morning drive. When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change. For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional. For more digital content to feed your faith, visit lakepoint.comit. And now let's dive in to today's devotional. Hey, what is up, everybody? Thanks for tuning in to the Daily Drive. My name is Bro, and we are spending a few minutes every day this week

talking about living an undistracted life. You know, focus is a powerful thing. If you're a golfer and you stand up on a tee box, you say, oh, man, there's water on the right. There's water on the right. There's water on the right. Where are you going to hit it? Yeah, in the water on the right.

Or are you going to hit it so far left into the woods because there was water on the right. Focus is a powerful thing. I heard it put like this, whatever has your focus has your attention. Whatever has your attention has your devotion. Whatever has your devotion has you. So in an attempt to sharpen our focus

and to eliminate distractions, we're going to look at a few passages of Scripture this week that will speak into this. Okay, so I just had to hit pause. I record most of these at home. And someone just knocked on our door, and I got up and went to the door to let a friend in who just brought my 90-year-old mother-in-law flowers from her yard. We got a vase down, put them in some water, she hugged Nana and she left. And I'm walking back here to this microphone thinking that's what it means to live an undistracted life.

To be so in tune with your purpose that you would leave a long day at work, come home and cut some flowers out of your yard, drive them across town because there's an elderly lady that you know who just loves flowers. I'm a little choked up, to be honest, in the moment. What just happened here was not a distraction. It was a divine interruption. And I'm just, I'm grateful for moments like that. Okay, so sorry about that, but back to our word for today. It's found in Luke chapter 10.

The scene is Jesus and the guys traveling to Jerusalem. They stop off in Bethany at the home of their good friends, Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, and it says this beginning in verse 38. As Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem, they came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him and to her home. Her sister Mary sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he taught. But Martha was, here's that word, distracted. By the big dinner she was preparing.

She came to Jesus and said, Lord, doesn't it seem unfair to you that my sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come and help me. But the Lord said to her, My dear Martha, you're worried and upset over all these details. There's only one thing necessary. Mary has discovered it,

and it will not be taken away from her. You know, I love people like Martha. I mean, I really like them, and I really need people like Martha in my life. They get things done. They pay attention to detail. They like to use their gifts of administration. frustration, hospitality helps leadership, usually behind the scenes.

I love the Martha personality type. But when you are a doer, when you are a check-off the to-do list kind of person, isn't it easy to get distracted by all that you have to get done and neglect the one thing that is necessary? Now, that one thing that is necessary, it doesn't change your personality type, doesn't change your gifting. In fact, it enables you to do what you do now out of the overflow. of your time with Jesus. He recenters your priorities. It recenters your focus, your attention,

your devotion. I mean, you still serve. You still work hard. You are still a get-it-done kind of person. But your motivation changes, your perspective changes, all that pressure of, oh, it all depends upon me, that starts to fade. All the details that get less important, and your worry and your anxiety get less frequent because your main focus is the one thing that is necessary. You see, when people like Martha choose to do first what Mary chose to do, they flourish. I mean, they're still Martha's. They're still doers. But they're doing now flows out of their being, and that is such a non-distracted difference. You might remember how Jesus gave his followers those life-changing three words when he said, remain in me. Stay connected to me. I am the vine. You're the branches. Draw nourishment from me.

Stay attached to me. Remain in me and you will produce much fruit. So let's keep the remain thing, the main thing today. Let's take some time like Mary and let's just sit at his feet. Let's just be today. And then let your relationship with him motivate you and fuel all of your doing. today. You won't stress out about all the details, and you will find deep joy in serving today. I'll see you back here tomorrow. Have a great day. Thanks for tuning in today. For more biblical teaching and worship, join us for our church online live weekend services on Saturdays at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 9.30 and 11 a.m. Central Standard Time. For more information, visit lakepoint.com.

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