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I wrote recently about being careful where we abide and listed a few potential problem areas, including sports. One morning as I was reading one too many sports articles on the ESPN app (Clemson football was in it!), I came across this sentence:

By now, you’ve dutifully studied three-year projections for quarterbacks, offenses, and defenses.

We have? Dutifully studied? 

There are guys who may not have read a book since college. Who, if they are believers, may protest, “I don’t have time for daily time with God,” or “I can’t memorize scripture.” But ESPN expects that they will have “dutifully studied…” sports statistics—not even statistics—projections! Or maybe it’s politics or cars or fashion or something else. 

There are distractions out there, and we all need to be on guard. I speak to myself.

But the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. (Mark 4.19, NIV)

Be on guard! Be alert! (Mark 13.33, NIV)