Spiritual ADHD Part 2

Part 2 of a 4 part series called Spiritual ADHD. It is comparing the struggles and experiences of a person who has ADHD with what those struggles may be like for Christians if they happened to have Spiritual ADHD.

The four struggles of a person that we will focus on these few weeks are:

• Spiritually Drifting Off
  
• Spiritually Tuned Out
  
• Spiritually Impulsive
  
• Spiritual Hyperactivity

[Tuned Out]

Those of us who struggle with ADHD find it normal that we will tune out people intentionally and even unintentionally. How might this affect us when we do it spiritually with God can affect the balance in our life. We must be tuned in, so this begs the natural question, are you tuned out?

Little Sammy, a young boy lying in the temple in 1 Samuel 3:1-11, was awakened 3 times by whom he thought was to be the priest Eli. Each time Eli would instruct him to go back to bed because he was dreaming. Eli realizes that it was God calling Sammy so he told him go back to bed and the next time you are called reply, "Speak Lord, for your servant is listening."

If we are not tuned into God's voice and there are distractions we may never hear God speaking to us or we need a reaction from God like he did to Paul when he knocked him on his butt blind for three days.

If your not tuned in you need to get tuned in. There are several easy/elementary ways that God speaks to us:

• Through, Ephesians 4:11-12, the 5-fold ministry of the church, apostles, prophets [not counting Joseph Smith or any of his cronies], evangelists, pastors and teachers.
• Through the bible: Psalm 119:105
• Through the Holy Spirit: Romans 8:16, Acts 10:19
  
• Through our conscience: Romans 9:1

The biggest issue is watching out for costly distractions. In the New Testament one of the Jesus types is him as a shepherd. In John 10:3-4, it talks about the shepherd opens the gate for the sheep and calls them out by name and the sheep know his voice. When distractions happen they can be costly, even deadly. If the sheep doesn't hear the shepherds voice he could be killed by wolves.

John 8:47 says, "He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to him."

Question: Are you so tuned out that you can't hear the voice of God?