Undistracted focus12/18/2022 Trusting God to work out my future (whether that meant marriage or not) became my new way of living. It wasn’t until my mid-twenties that I finally surrendered my “ideal plan for my life” to God and truly began living for Him. I wish that I had understood this sooner. In other words, singleness provides a unique opportunity to focus completely on the Lord. I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. You know that passage in 1 Corinthians 7 that compares being married and being unmarried? Well, the apostle Paul (the author of the book) is unpacking the idea that the unmarried men and women have a unique availability to serve the Lord with an undistracted focus. It wasn’t until my mid-to-late twenties that I finally understood and began to truly live out God’s call for my life. I wanted to serve Christ, but I also really wanted to get married. Somewhere in-between wanting to make the most of my single years and desiring to live an “undistracted life for Christ,” I got distracted. I was one of those “undistracted singles” who was totally distracted by marriage. I spent half of my life totally focused on serving the Lord and the other half totally focused on finding my man. If your resolution for the new year is to find yourself a man, you won’t want to skip this post from Bethany. Enjoy them again (or for the first time) with our “Best of” series all month long. To kick off 2020, we’ve pulled your favorite posts out of the vault. We can’t wait to spend another year with you. When we have a positive emotional response to that thought, we enable it to dance and move and breathe itself into existence.Happy New Year, friends. When we hold a thought in our mind without being distracted, we have achieved pure thought. Our thoughts and feelings exist in relation to one another, and they form a feedback loop through which they communicate and empower each other. If pure thought is a body, it is our emotions that supply the heart that can really bring it to life. When this is the essence of our experience, we can go with the flow, knowing that we will be okay. We can simply respond to the opportunities that naturally come our way. We don't need to focus on action and controlling so much when we are surrounded by energy that draws what we want toward us. As a result, the longer we are able to hold positive thoughts in our minds, the more powerful the positive energy around us becomes. Our undistracted thoughts create a powerful magnet that draws similar energy into our vibrational field. The law of attraction-like attracts like-influences all energy, including our thoughts, and this is what makes pure thought so potent. This is what is known as pure thought, because it is undistracted. Yet, if we apply our minds to a specific task, especially one that interests us, they gather together and allow us to focus our attention, creating great power and energy. If we try to follow our thoughts without controlling them, we will be amazed at how truly inconsistent they are. They start and stop and move in surprising ways from one second to the next. If we make no effort at all, our thoughts usually scatter in a vast array of directions.
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