1 Corinthians 7:35 · World English Bible
This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
What splits your attention is usually something good, which is why it never occurs to anyone to cut it. Two legitimate claims drawing on one current will both run at partial strength, and partial strength is what most people mistake for their ceiling.
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What splits your attention is usually something good, which is why it never occurs to anyone to cut it.
Two legitimate claims drawing on one current will both run at partial strength, and partial strength is what most people mistake for their ceiling. Nothing wicked has to be present for a life to underperform.
Half attention yields half feeling, half feeling yields hesitant action, and hesitant action compounds into sincere intentions and thin results. Undistracted attention to the Lord is a condition that gets built rather than promised, and building it starts with naming the good thing quietly drawing current and deciding what it may have. Leave that undecided and it gets decided anyway, by whatever pulls hardest on a given day.
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Which good thing in your life has never actually been assigned a place, and keeps taking one anyway?
The sage holds to one thing and so becomes whole. Chasing many good things at once leaves a person spread out and oddly empty.
A monk asked about practice. The teacher said: when you eat, eat. When you walk, walk. The trouble is not evil, it is doing two right things at the same time.
Grasp at too much and you grasp nothing at all. The hand that closes too wide closes on air.
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