Pay Attention

In the past few months in Lima, hundreds of pedestrians have been hit by cars and buses while crossing the city's congested streets. The problem is that pedestrians now pay more attention to their cell phone, BlackBerry, iPod, iTouch, or MP3, than they do to oncoming traffic. Then they get hit.

There have been dozens of deaths in Lima in recent months, all because pedestrians were not paying attention.

Are you paying attention to what's going on around you?

Hebrews 2:1 (NIV) says, "We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away."

I don't think that Paul wrote this as he was crossing a street in Lima, Peru, but he might as well have been. His exhortation for us to pay attention here - to the gospel message - is something that we also can embrace on a wider level.

Pay attention to those around you. Pay attention to your communities. Pay attention to the unreached wherever you are in the world. Pay attention to what God is doing in your part of the world, and join it. Pay attention to what the enemy is trying to do to trip you up, and avoid it.

Pay attention all around you, so that you and your church and ministry do not drift away!