Today, we had a guest preacher at church. The song the choir sung right before he got up to preach was “Nobody But Jesus” which coincidentally also happened to be the title of his sermon.

When the choir was singing, I was excited, praising the Lord, raising my hands and singing along. The song had me in the spirit!! Then the preacher got up to deliver his sermon and within a matter of minutes my whole attitude and demeanor had changed.

I received a text message right as the sermon was starting and something that was said annoyed me. A few minutes later I was thinking about a situation that could transpire and be my fault. Then I was looking down at my stomach thinking about how I really needed to lose weight, but I had already eaten a cookie for breakfast, and there were donuts waiting for me too. My mind was all over the place.

I was literally staring at the preacher but not hearing a word that he was saying. I was caught up in my own head, in my own thoughts, thinking about any and everything else. Then I had the nerve to get on my phone, get on Facebook, and Instagram to see what was going on in the social media world.

It was not the time nor the place to be doing such a thing. But, here I was doing something I knew I should not have been doing. Oh, and did I mention multiple people were texting me too…and of course I was responding.

YIKES!!

Why wasn’t I focused on the word being delivered? I ended up looking around and noticed I wasn’t the only one. Some people texting me were right there in the congregation. Some just looked zoned out, and then you had your group of people that truly looked like they were into the sermon and rejoicing in the word of God.

But were they all? That, I will never know. Sometimes when you hear the same person preaching to you repeatedly, you tend to tune out, but this was someone new. I should have been excited to hear a sermon from a new perspective. But I was still tuned out.

When I got home, I began to question things. Why aren’t we hungry for the word of God? What have we as Christians become? Had I been hungry, desperate, and in a sticky situation I would have been focused on the word, on the edge of my seat waiting to hear something that would feed my spirit.

I would be eager to receive the word of God and then go home and study some more to show myself approved.

As I was thinking, I decided I don’t want to be that person who goes home saying hmmmm…..what was that sermon about? I don’t want to be the person who only worships the Lord when I feel I need him, because the truth is, I need him every day, every hour and every second.

I literally cannot do anything without him. God created us and yet we walk around like we created ourselves, like we gave ourselves food, shelter, and water. Like we saved OURSELVES!! We didn’t! You didn’t! There is only one Savior and that’s Nobody But Jesus!

FOCUS

How often do you find yourself drifting? Are you always in the spirit? We constantly allow other things to distract us from the one and only savior. I was focused on my phone, social media, text messages, and negative thoughts about myself, when I should have been focused on Nobody But Jesus.

We sang the song, it was the sermon title, and I still wasn’t focused on what was important. The sermon was falling on deaf ears. I literally only remember hearing the preachers voice whenever he said the words Nobody But Jesus. Every time he said those 3 words my head popped up, and then I would drift again. Focused. On. Self.

The next time you are sitting in church, remove the distractions. Turn the phone off and put it away. If the Bible app on the phone will eventually lead you to look at other things, go back to bringing an actual Bible with you to church.

When you walk in the house of the Lord pray that God directs your focus where it needs to be. Don’t come to church just for show, or routine, but to allow yourself to be fed the word of God. To be in a place of worship with other believers. To listen to what God has to say to you!

As soon as we get that “blessing” we have been waiting on, we are ready to yell oh it was Nobody But Jesus! We get that new car, new house, new job, new spouse and we are yelling oh it was Nobody But Jesus.

The problem is we need to yell it every day! We need to walk and talk like true believers, being disciples for the Lord. There is literally no one like Jesus and we should never take that for granted. We each have a purpose and we need to walk in it.

Take a look at your faith walk, your journey, your blessings, the trials and tribulations you have overcome and ask yourself…..are you living to please only yourself and others or Nobody But Jesus?

If you are ready to get back on the right track, start here:

God is with you

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