A.D.D. (attention deficit disorder)

     My goodness, the problem with "ADD" has been around a long time, even though doctors and people are just now beginning to catch on. Not serious, you say?  Do you know what the failure of Adam was, the failure by which we were all made sinners?  It was "disobedience", which is a translation of the Hebrew word, "parakoe" which means to fail to pay attention or inattention. On the other hand the "obedience" of Jesus, by which we have all been made righteous is "hupokoe" which means attentive listening (Ro. 5:19).

      No, it wasn't the apple eating that got Adam (a trespass).  It wasn't the failure to dress and keep the garden (sin).  It was "ADD".  He didn't pay attention.  He was busy doing something else when he should have been listening to God.  Hmmmm!  I wonder, has that ever happened to any of us?  You know, there was a member of my family that came under a great threat. Victory did come, but it involved a great struggle.  Yet, the night before this threat materialized, just before we went to sleep, my wife and I both suddenly heard the warning of the Lord.  We started to make a phone call and give a warning, but talked ourselves out of it and then the next day it unfolded. You cannot imagine how much trouble could have been avoided had we been paying attention.  Then,  one time when our first child was young and we lived in Maine, I took her to school one day on icy roads. We drove a little Ford Pinto at the time. Remember them ? They looked like a half of a car with a long nose and cut off backside.  Front-end heavey.  I hit a ice as I rounded a curve and the car went over the bridge, front first where the most of the weight was.  At that exact moment, back at home, the Lord spoke to Bev and she dropped to the floor and screamed, for no reason she knew of, "NO...IN JESUS NAME!. That car should have toppled over into the rocky creek bed, but it stopped, at that exact moment,  with the heavy end over the edge of the bridge.  Thank God, on that day, Bev did not have ADD. She paid attention.

    I wonder how many "falls" all of us have had because of ADD?   I am so thankful for God's forgiveness for ADD.  I am so thankful, that even when we do miss Him, His grace steps in and helps us overcome anyway. Wow!  What a God we serve!  Thank God there is a medicine for spiritual ADD.  It is New Wine!  It makes His voice louder in our inner being.