Undistracted: Capture Your Purpose. Rediscover Your Joy.

by Bob Goff

Sometimes we are so busy looking up and looking forward trying to figure out the next moves in our lives—or looking backward at all the places we have been—that we don’t look down and figure out where we actually are.

Just decide right now that you are going to lean into the rich, meaningful, beautiful, oftentimes painful life God has already given you.

We need to block our view of the things that hardly matter at all, stop returning to the patterns that do not serve our larger objectives, start recognizing what is temporary and transitory, and instead focus intensely on the things that will last forever: our faith, our families, and our purposes. When you direct your attention to these things, you will find your joy.

Here’s my question for you: Would you do it? Would you be willing to risk dying in order for your life to be more lasting? Would you risk everything for the chance to live your life more fully? That’s the kind of reset Jesus said following Him would entail.

Decide in advance that you will do whatever it takes to get your heart right, and then do it—even if it will kill all previous versions of you.

We are so distracted by the things happening around us that we overlook what God could be doing within us.

You may not have someone lurking outside your living room window, but I bet you have people in your life who think they’re entitled to your time, energy, ideas, output, input, and everything else in between.

If such folks have become a distraction for you or are making off with your joy, you have my permission to not call them back. Don’t answer the email.

What I think He wants is for us to spend undistracted time with Him all the time.

Jesus didn’t make a big speech or a three-point sermon. He just said, “Come,” and with this one word all the water in the Sea of Galilee shifted to Peter’s side of the tub.

Here’s my question for you: What is distracting you?

Peter expressed his faith in two different ways that night. The first was a tentative request to join Jesus on the water.

The second was an even more courageous admission by Peter: that he was sinking and needed to be rescued. And in this moment, we see the two sides of the faith coin: action and doubt.

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