Last days, lasting focus • followHIM Favorites • May 18-24 • Come, Follow Me
5/14/20263 min
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsHank Smith· Host0:00
[gentle music] Hey, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. John and I share a single story to go with each week's Come, Follow Me lesson. John, we're in the Book of Joshua this week, and you've told me you have a story.
John Bytheway· Host0:13
Yeah, I think one of the most memorable verses of Joshua is, "Choose ye-" "This day whom ye will serve."
Hank Smith· Host0:19
Yep.
John Bytheway· Host0:20
Right. And there's also verses about hearkening, and I just think there are so many different things that are trying to get our attention today that are- Mm-hmm ... distracting. One of my favorite Elder Richard G. Scott quotations was, "Satan has a powerful tool to use against good people. It is distraction."
Hank Smith· Host0:36
[laughs] Distraction, yep.
John Bytheway· Host0:37
Choosing what to give our attention to. So I picked up this little book by David Jeremiah about living in the last days, and this is, uh, what he wrote: "One of the worst train accidents in American history happened in the fall of 2008 near Chatsworth, California. A Metrolink commuter train ran a red light on the tracks and collided head-on with a freight train," ugh, "killing 25 people and injuring 135 others. What went wrong? When investigators probed the accident, they found that the engineer received seven text messages and had sent five himself during the fateful ride."
Hank Smith· Host1:16
Ugh.
John Bytheway· Host1:16
"It is amazing to think that something as simple as a cellphone could be so distracting to a veteran engineer that it cost so many people their lives, including the engineer himself. But that is what distractions do.