They were stoned

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented" (Hebrews 11:37 KJV); It is so easy to be distracted from the One True God.  There is distraction all among us. The question is, are you going to let it distract you? We read of many men and women in the Bible following after Christ. They too had many distractions, but the way they made it through was through their faith in the One whom they loved and relied upon. All the way from the Old Testament and into the New Testament many believers were martyred, tortured, and put into prison because of their faith in God. Talk about distractions, along with some pain! Many more were burned alive at the stake or dipped into boiling oil as the crowd watched. This was the devil's entertainment, to torture our fellow believers. It really hasn't changed. Today we live in a society who wants to pull our Holy Word, the Bible, out of every public place. They recognize the Word of God as a threat, and it has been this way since the hand of the Lord touched man and inspired him, by the Holy Spirit, to write it. The Holy Bible has become a distraction to the natural man, the man without conviction. The world knows that the believer, who truly has their heart on Jesus Christ, will go all the way even unto death for the One they love. Let's not let the world distract us, but let's allow the Living Word within our spirits to distract the distractions in our lives today. God bless you. Amen.