“Just Breathe. What are you so afraid of? To show the real you? To be seen for all you’ve been created for?” – God speaks. Distraction plants those seeds of doubt. When you’re too distracted looking everywhere but in your Heavenly Fathers presence you begin to doubt your purpose. You begin to discredit who you were created to be.

I know lately I’ve felt overwhelmed and distant from God. As I sit here wracking my brain I can’t even think because I am so distracted. Our days consist of us being enticed and bombarded by everything. And in the moments of quiet I feel this void. I reach for my phone instead of my fathers hand – instead of the prompting to be in His presence. I can’t help but feel this naked vulnerability as I sit in the quiet alone. Maybe it’s just me, but I long to feel acknowledged and affirmed. My first instinct is to grab my phone, but that distraction will only satisfy this hunger for a short while. This distraction pulls me away from God and the fulfillment that His relationship with me brings. The only truly satisfying thing.

But I feel myself look around as we often do and I begin to compare myself. I start to judge myself and where I’m at with other people. Only growing my dissatisfaction with myself and life in general. And I realized that this distance I’ve been feeling comes from my distraction. I’ve been comparing myself and doing things not because it’s who I am or makes me happy, but because it’s what I think is expected of me.

We all have a certain set of gifts and talents God gifted us and you will NEVER be happy trying to be someone else. I realized a lot of what I was doing was because I wanted to be approved, more valuable, more worthy. But in whose eyes? Because you are already approved, redeemed, made worthy in Christ. Don’t make the mistake of becoming so distracted by this world you buy into the lie you have to be anything other than who you are. You don’t need to do things to gain approval because you’re already approved by God.

Something I need to do more of is weed out these distractions and bad habits. Instead of reaching for my phone I reach for my fathers hand. God will pick you up right where you’re at and guide you back to the right path. Don’t seek to be deemed worthy in the worlds eyes. As I write this God is also speaking to me – and I see that the more I try to fill myself with what this world says will satisfy the more depressed and distant from God I become. No amount of new outfits, likes, or followers will make me whole. I need to turn to my creator and allow Him to fill me.

He desires you. All of you. So lets break free from the distractions. Cut out the lies! Ask yourself what’s holding you back? What are the distractions keeping you from God?

Remember You Are Fearfully Made ❤

xoxo Taylor Nicole