There was a movie I saw & liked (but I wouldn't recommend it to disciples), called "Lucky Number Slevin". I won't give much away to those who haven't seen it, but there was a line where one of the "good guys" tells a complete stranger "Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right and you go left" and then breaks the stranger's neck. (It's an interesting movie). It's all about distraction, and how nothing is how it appears to be. And how the devil, the master of distraction from God, runs this gambit (and many others) on us so often. He wants our focus on ANYTHING ELSE BUT GOD and we don't even notice it half the time. it's as if we've become conditioned to distraction, and it affects our ability to listen, thoughtfully think, be still (personal experience), pray & meditate. And if that's the case, then it can be a spiritual danger; an evil from which we need God's Help.

Distraction is the shifting of our attention from something of greater importance, to something of lesser importance. And what greater danger is there than to be distracted from God. The Bible mentions this several times - it's referred to as idolatry. But we need take serious notice when we are regularly distracted by something. Think about this: "Our attention often runs to what's important to us". Our distraction can reveal what we truly love.

A good example here is Martha (Luke 10:38-42). She was busy in her kitchen (did they call it that back then?) while Jesus taught in her home. But when Martha complained that her sister, Mary, wasn't helping because she was listening, at Jesus' feet, He readjusted her focus in that Mary had "chosen the good portion". Wrapped up in her anxiety to feed everyone, or what people would think of her or her household, she didn't recognize her distraction from Jesus. She thought that she was doing the right thing by serving, but Jesus had pointed out that she had shifted her focus from the greater importance to the lesser.

So when we are busy, we must frequently ask ourselves, "Am I distracted? If so, what is it? What does our heart truly desire? Am I choosing 'the good portion'? Or something else?"