5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: A Distracted Heart | 5 Minutes with Jesus | May 13, 2026
- We can fill our
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- Days with good things, necessary things.
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- But if we're not careful, our time with god can get pushed
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- Further and further down the daily to-do list.
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- Plants that grew up with weeds don't die immediately.
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- It's a process.
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- Let me ask you a question.
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- Are you living a second best life?
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- I mentioned on
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- A previous devotion that the biggest enemy of best
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- Is not worst, but rather it's second best.
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- How does that apply to our lives today?
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- Think about it.
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- We are a distracted people.
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- We live in such a noisy world,
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- Outside our homes and inside our own minds.
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- Social media scrolling has become a national disease.
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- We all agree,
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- I think, that viewing online pornography is harmful behavior.
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- What about the simple act of being so consumed
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- By the content and our handheld devices?
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- Ours can pass without even realizing how much time
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- We've invested in it.
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- It's not as if we're viewing content
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- That we'd want to hide of somersaults.
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- It's just mindless, mindless scrolling.
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- I'll be honest, i struggle with this.
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- I don't think i struggled as much before the 2020 pandemic,
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- But there was such
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- A shift that year and how we all lived our lives.
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- There's some of that behavior has stayed with me, and i'm
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- Daily asking the holy spirit to help me reset my priorities.
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- Think about your own life.
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- How distracted you think you are.
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- When jesus tells the story of the sower, he describes
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- Seed falling on a footpath
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- Where it stepped on and never took root.
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- Then it describes seed falling on rocky ground
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- Where there
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- Was no moisture for it to grow, and it withers and it dies.
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- Today, i want us to think for a moment
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- About seed that seems at first to be in a good place.
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- It starts to grow,
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- But it's sharing a lot of space with other things,
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- And eventually
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- They choke out the tender plants that had just begun to grow.
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- In luke chapter eight, we read other
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- Seed fell among thorns that grew up with it
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- And choked out the tender plants.
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- Okay, so what does that mean for you and me?
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- Have you ever paid attention to how you spend your whole day?
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- And how much time are you at work?
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- How much time do you spend with your family?
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- How much time do you spend
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- Relaxing and giving yourself a well-deserved break?
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- How much time do you spend with the lord?
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- That's what i mean by the enemy of best is not worst.
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- It's second best.
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- We can fill our days with good things, necessary things.
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- But if we're not careful, our time with god can get pushed
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- Further and further down the daily to-do list.
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- Plants that grow up with weeds don't die immediately.
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- It's a process.
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- I remember reading where greg laurie said
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- Most people are killed by food, then by poison.
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- It's easy to get to the end of a long day
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- And just want to fall in bed or watch something to distract
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- And entertain.
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- I get that.
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- I'm a huge fan of everyone loves raymond
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- Or perhaps your kids to get ready for school in the morning,
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- And before you even realize half the day is gone
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- And you think, i just don't have time to read my bible.
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- All the things that we might be doing
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- Can be good things, but they're just not the best.
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- Jesus made it clear to his friends
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- As he was teaching that day.
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- If we're not careful, he said all too quickly,
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- The message is crowded out by the cares
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- And riches and pleasures of this life.
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- God is not out to ruin your social life.
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- He just wants your spiritual life to be rich and growing.
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- Ask the holy spirit for wisdom as to how to eliminate some
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- Of the distractions in life, and make time for the one
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- Who himself is life.
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- Let's pray.
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- What i want is thank you
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- That your word instructs us so clearly on how to live,
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- Never to bring us under condemnation,
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- But to draw us closer to your heart.
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- So i do ask holy spirit,
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- For each one of us,
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- That you would give us insight into where we are wasting
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- Time, for
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- Our time has just been stolen from us,
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- So that we're able to keep our lives in order,
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- Because we want to become more like jesus
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- And we pray in his name.
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- Amen.
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