We must not allow anything of this world to distract us from total devotion to the Lord.
#Undistracted devotion bride of christ full#
He said, “Be on guard, that your hearts may not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day come on you suddenly like a trap” (Luke 21:34). Paul exhorted the Corinthian Christians saying, “From now on both those who have wives should be as though they had none and those who weep, as though they did not weep and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice and those who buy, as though they did not possess and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it for the form of this world is passing away….I say this to secure your undistracted devotion to the Lord” (1 Corinthians 7:29-35). Jesus warned us not to be weighed down with the cares of this world. Like Gideon’s army, we too don’t often realise that God is testing us.
It is in the ordinary things of life that God tests us – in our attitude to money, pleasure, earthly honour and comfort etc. Only 300 of them remained on their feet, alert, drinking the water with cupped hands.
9700 of them forgot all about the enemy while kneeling down to satisfy their thirst. Little did they realise that they were being tested. The way those 10,000 people drank water from the river to alleviate their thirst was the means God used to determine who qualified to be in Gideon’s army. “We must not allow anything of this world to distract us from total devotion to the Lord.” Only 300 passed the test and were approved by God (Judges 7:1-8). These were then taken down to the river and tested. But God knew that they were not all wholehearted. When Gideon gathered an army to fight the enemies of Israel, he had 32,000 men with him.
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