Focus

Word of the day is "FOCUS"

Psalms 123:1-4 1 A Song of Ascents. Unto You I lift up my eyes, O You who dwell in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to the Lord our God, Until He has mercy on us. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us! For we are exceedingly filled with contempt. Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scorn of those who are at ease, With the contempt of the proud.

What are we focusing into? To whom we look to? Are we focusing too much into our situation, our problems, our wealth, our securities,our friends, parents? What and where are we focusing to now?

The earthly things that we look up to will NOT guarantee the growth of our spiritual life. As we read in Psalms 123, King David says, only to God alone he looks up to. His total focus is the Lord, and not to the situations and circumstances around him, even though he was a rich king, but his riches did not guarantee everything, it did not give a guaranteed salvation, peace, joy, love and so on.

In Matthew 14:29-30, Peter started to walk on the water really good. Why? Because his focus is to reach Jesus, his focus was Jesus. But then he ended sinking, why? Because the moment he turns away his focus from Jesus and allow the wind to take over his faith, his emotions, and every other human aspect, he begins to sink. We should have and immovable FAITH so that we can focus on Jesus and His word.

We can learn a few things from Peter. Peter had the FAITH to believe and trust in Jesus and he knows Jesus is His only hope. So with all boldness He tried to walk on the water because Jesus was his main focus. Same goes to us, as we have begun this year, let Jesus and His word or shall i say His promises be our main focus, not our wealth, not our situations, not our problems, but let Jesus be our main focus and let His words richly dwell in us. Amen!

As we journey through this year, let us not lost our focus in Jesus and hold on to His promises. Do not be like Peter. On his way to reach Jesus, his focus was drifted. Why? Because he began to realize of the problems that he is going thru, the troubles, the trial and testing’s, his wealth and so on. And these things had caused Peter to lose His focus on Jesus.

Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?

Galatians 5:16 & 25 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

Do not lose our focus in Him. Be steadfast in His word and have an immovable faith. We have begun with the Spirit, but we are trying to accomplish everything in human effort. Do not be like peter. Our problems, trials and testing, our wealth, and every other earthly thing are not going to take us on where we should be. It will not help us to focus in Jesus. It will only bring destruction to our spiritual life. I am not talking something theologically, but something to practice. If we have begun this year by totally surrendering all to His, and totally focusing on Him, so let us not let the devil to drift our focus away from Jesus, His word and promises and the Holy Spirit.

Let not our fleshly desires to take over our minds. We are not perfect; God is making us to be perfect. There are times we fall, but not forever we fall, yet we still try to rise up with the help of Holy Spirit. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Since we have started to focus in Jesus, be steadfast in His word and have an immovable Faith, let us not give in to every scheme and the lies of the devil. Problem, troubles, hard times, trials and testing may come along our journey thru out this year, but the question is are still going to put all our focus in Jesus and come out of all the problem, troubles, hard times, trials and testing victoriously or we want to sink into all the problem, troubles, hard times, trials and testing and just flow with the wave.

Now the best part is, even we try our best to focus in Jesus, our human nature sometimes do give in to all that is happening around us and we began to sink like Peter, and yet, when we cry out to Jesus like Peter did in Matthews 14:30-31 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!" Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. "You of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?" . Jesus is always with us. So do not be afraid to journey thru this year. His promise to us in Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go." So let us be strong, be bold and focus on Jesus. The Lord is with us till the end of age. He is Emmanuel - God is with us. Amen.

Hebrews 13:5 ....because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."

I choose to focus in Him, be steadfast in His word and to have an immovable faith, and as i have begun in Spirit, I want to end it in Spirit as well. What about you?

God Bless You!

In Christ,

+_-= ShErKaRL KuGaN =-_+