I was watching TV the other day and i thought, what a fantastic ploy, i sit here watching some figment of some guy in a Hollywood boardroom's imagination, for a moment in time (lately probably way too many moments in time), and forget about the real world around me.

I suddenly had this kind of picture of God's people, all of us sitting in front of these boxes, staring at flickering images, lulled and distracted away from reality. Falling asleep.

But TV's not the only vice of distraction. Church's can be great places of distraction from reality. Church politics (straining at those gnats), in-fighting, pettiness, navel gazing, activity for activities sake, empire building, power plays, irrelevant PC immersed sermons, Christian sub-culture, anything that will keep us from focusing on anything that the world desperately needs the people of God to focus on.

Consumerism of course is an oldy but a goody. Pursuit of stuff in the name of 'getting ahead' is a popular one amongst us His people. I speak in generalities of course, there are always those that are an exception to the rule, and man Lord I wish I was one of those.

God wake me up!!!