Thought for Wednesday, April 3rd

April 3, 2013

Spiritual ADHD – Do You Have It

.  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

James 1:8

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

-       John Locke

ADHD is the acronym for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

A person can have an attention deficiency without necessarily being hyper active; while others can have the converse dynamic; while yet others have behavioral affects depicting both disorders.

Spiritually speaking, I tend to think that we have more souls with attention deficiencies without the traits of hyper activity.

Many Christians seem to lack an ability to focus for long periods of time when it comes to praying or reading the Bible or attending a spiritual training session.  But seldom do we see an overwhelming number of folks who are spiritually hyperactive and can’t seem to ever stop being busy for the cause of Christ or doing the things of a Kingdom nature.

There are many degrees of both hyperactivity and attention deficiency: but I would venture to say, especially spiritually speaking that all of us manifest some degree of the latter while very few of us reach a degree of spiritual hyperactivity that is measureable enough to be very noticeable.

I suppose if one had to be one or the other it would be far better to be spiritually hyperactive than it would be to have a deficiency in our ability to focus or pay attention to the things of God.

I’m sure there are those who think there should be a good balance between the two, but personally I desire to be spiritually hyperactive, while I really don’t want to be at a deficit when it comes to my attention to God and the things of His word and His kingdom.

Where do you think you would find yourself on a measurement scale of one to ten for each of these spiritual conditions?  If one where not at all and ten were totally, where would your attention deficit score fall and where would your spiritual hyperactivity measurement be?

Do you have spiritual AD or Spiritual HD?  It seems to be if we had less of the first we would have more of the second: but then I am not a behaviorist or a psychologist, so you might want to go to the Great Physician and get His point of view on this subject when it comes to you.

Today’s Prayer

Father, keep me focused on you and may I always be willing to put my hand to the plow and labor for the Master anytime you have work for me to do.