Contemplating distraction
- Satan uses distraction as a tool to pull us away from God or to limit our effectiveness in His work.
- Distraction can also be a useful tool to relax or to lay aside unhealthy stress, fear, or even pain.
- I would like to use different words for those two use cases: distraction refers to the tool in Satan’s hands drawing us downward from the divine while diversion will be used to refer to the tool in our hands loosening the sometimes debilitating grip of negative thoughts and feelings.
- The big question for which I would like to find a functional answer is this: where is the line (or zone) where diversion starts to become distraction. What are the hallmarks to help recognize when I am loosening my grip on the tool and allowing my adversary to take the wheel with a tool that he is incredibly capable with?
- The second question is: are there guardrails I can put in place to ensure that I don’t relinquish control of the tool into those adversarial hands.
- Social media is a demonstration at scale of public distraction as some people grapple with how to keep it in balance while other people simply abandon any control and succumb to doom-scrolling.
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