Focus

Driving down the road, the vehicles in front are a fading blur of tail lights, but they are there. I continue to drive pressing forward to reach the place I want to be. The only thing that stands in my way of getting there is space, distance between where I want to be and where I am.

Our walk with God is much the same. We tend to focus on what we want, where we want to go, what is important to us, but we lose sight of what is important to God. It is easy to do, but God calls us to absolute surrendering to His will. We can go to where we want to be and be lost, or we can go to where God wants us to be and find that it is the same place we wanted to be, but without God we have nothing. See we think we know that our will is what God wants, but instead of seeing what He wants we push to get there instead of learning the lessons that He has for us.

See I want to have a relationship with a woman, but if God isn't in it then what is there to have? God has to be in the journey, not just thought of second He has to be the first thought when we get up and the last thought when we go to be, He has to be thought of during the day and in all we do. It says in
1 Thessalonians 5:17 "to pray without ceasing". By doing that we keep focus on God, we keep Him in the number 1 position in our mind. When we take our focus off of Him and put it on what we want, we lose the purpose for which He created us for. It isn't for us to get what we want, but for us to get what God wants us to have. He wants us to be happy, He wants us to find our mate, He wants us to be completed, but without Him we are nothing. We will not get to where He wants if we push our wants in front of His. His will, His way, our surrendering to Him. He has to come first, not our kids, not our loved ones, not our wants, but God. Did you read the Bible today? Did you start out in what He wants to teach you? Today is about focus on what God wants and every day forward.

Matthew 22:37-39 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.

Mark 12:29-31 29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.”

We know what God has called us to. Are you putting Him first? It is a tall order, but when you put Him first you are then allowing Him to do great things in your life, in your heart and what you may want may not be what God has designed for you at the time. 

Trust Him, put Him first.