The importance of putting all distractions aside

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: The Shunammite woman is a great example of focus and determination when it comes to presenting her needs before the Lord. She doesn't want to be distracted by superficial conversations or stop along the way, but instead is focused on reaching the prophet Elisha. This is why it is important for us to be dedicated and persistent in our requests to God, and to create an appropriate environment of silence, prayer, and stillness to concentrate our faculties on our cause. Fasting can also be helpful to remove distractions and focus our minds on the task at hand. We must remove all distractions from our life and focus on one thing only if our service to the Lord is to be useful.

When the Shunammite woman sees her problem that she has lost her son, she goes to her husband, having left her son in the prophet's room, she asks her husband for help to go see the prophet but it does not tell the whole story, and there we could see clearly how important it is that we be surrendered to the Lord so that God can truly speak to us and carry out His purposes in our life because if we are superficial like this husband of the Shunammite as we saw in our last meditation then God is going to omit His great revelations in our life.

Now, we see here that when this woman prepares the donkey on which she is going to go to the prophet, she tells her servant: "Guide and walk, and don't make me stop on the road except when I tell you to; and then immediately he left and he went to Mount Carmel where the prophet of God dwelt. "