ADHD?

       We hear much these days about both children and adults who have a difficulty concentrating on something for any length of time.  It is usually referred to as an attention disorder.  As one adult advertisement stated, "It is as if someone else has the remote and keeps flipping the channel."  Anyone can be plagued with this problem.  I sometimes think that I had this problem while in school but back then, I just got the ruler across the knuckles and my attention was focused until the next rap.  It is probably not a new problem since there are several references in the Bible to problems of the mind.  Both Paul and Peter spoke about the mind and how it should be renewed and brought under control.  Sometimes, it is referred to having your mind renewed.   First Peter 1:13 says, "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;"   
       Peter here mentions that we are to gird up the loins of our mind.  The picture here is the one who would wear a long flowing robe and then, when needing to move quickly, would gather up the edges of the robe in order for them to move.  The robe would be gathered up allowing them more freedom.  The idea is more of control over one's thoughts and understanding.  Paul, in Romans 12:1-2 spoke of the renewing of our minds which was the only logical thing that we should do as a result of what God had done for us in the preceding 11 chapters of the Book of Romans.   In fact, in these verses, Paul speaks about the metamorphosis that takes place in the life of the believer when we are "transformed" by the renewing of our minds.  So, the Scriptures speak of the wandering minds or those that are out of control.  There are those minds that are off thinking about other things when they should be thinking about the things of God.  It is time for us to take control of the remote, as it were, and to focus our attention upon the things of God.  As Peter has said, "...gird up the loins of your mind..."  Praise God today that He has addressed this issue and that He has the answer.