Dealing With Distractions

Today we have so many advantages that they can seem like sensory overload. For example, all the ways we can communicate today can be so immediately available that we lose a sense of the person.
 
Our world offers so many possibilities. All of them can be good but they can also become distractions. Here is an example; "Sea Turtle Eggs." Female sea turtles swim to shore between May and August to dig nests in the sand and lay their eggs. Months later, the eggs hatch and the baby turtles follow the pure light of the moon back to the surf.

In a perfect world, the pure light of the moon guides every turtle back safely to the ocean.

However, as we know, we don’t live in a perfect world.

Sea Turtle hatchlings instinctively crawl toward the brightest light. On an undeveloped beach, the brightest light is the moon. On a developed beach, the brightest light can be an artificial light source emanating from restaurants, homes and condominiums along the coast.
 
Unfortunately, these powerful artificial sources of light often attract the hatchlings and cause them to move in the wrong direction when they are born.
 
Rather than follow the pure light of the moon to the ocean the sea turtles follow the wrong light to a disastrous outcome.
 
Are we distracted by so many lights we are desensitized to the one True Light? Jesus said, “I am the light of the world.” Now if Satan is unable to seduce us into some grievous sin but can get us distracted from the True Light doesn’t he accomplish the same thing?
 
In a perfect world the pure light of Jesus would shine and we would not be distracted. But, we do not live in a perfect world. Therefore, we must have the will and ability to discriminate between light that is distracting and the pure light of Jesus that is attracting.
 
Perhaps one reason many walk in the broad way is because they are not following the One True Light. As a result people do not distinguish between the one true light and all others that distract. The bright, shiny and artificial light sabotages our journey.

Unlike sea turtles we have the ability to think, adapt and change our direction when we realize we are walking after the wrong light. When we follow the One True Light there are on oceans of possibilities open to us. 

Rickie Jenkins