We Need to Stay Focused

A busy week of Vacation Bible School in the books. The whole week I was able to stay focused and get done what needed to get done. Saturday was a day to recover and recuperate. Since it was our daughters last Sunday while on her internship, I asked my wife if the church, or members she had gotten close to, did anything special for her. We were headed over to the church to get the bulletins ready. My wife texted her to find out how the worship had gone. The response from our daughter was, “It’s Saturday”. My wife started laughing at having made such an obvious blunder. She looked at me and I was going red from laughter. I then had to confess that I actually was thinking that it was Monday. One day blurs into another day, but in the midst of everything, we had lost our focus. Our blunders might not always be so obvious, but we all lose focus from time to time. Maybe we are spending time with God in prayer, and we fall asleep. Maybe we are sitting in worship on Sunday thinking about what we are going to do later on. How about when we are having devotions or studying God’s word and get sidetracked doing something else? We read in Matthew 6:33-34, “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” There is only one thing that is truly worth seeking and when we find Him, everything else is secondary. In Galatians 6, Paul talks about the only thing that mattered was a new creation. In other words, he was dead to the world and the world was dead to him. He was talking about being made new in Christ. Again, in Colossians 3:2-3, “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.” What are the things that are distracting you and causing your mind to wander from God. I think sometimes phones and computers have become one of the greatest culprits in losing our focus. Believe, identify, Confess, and then trust God to make you into a new creation. Even when we are feeling overwhelmed we need to stand strong on God’s word and promise. He is my hope and my salvation. Father, forgive me for the times my mind has wandered and replace it with a faithful heart, mind, and spirit. Amen