Where's Your Focus?

Take a minute and read Esther 5:9-15. What an amazing situation. All that he had! Yet, there was ONE thing that was not as he wanted and that ONE thing caused him to build the very gallows that he would hang on! The title of these musings is "Focus". Despite all his blessings, the ONE thing Haman focused on took his life and the lives of those in his family. What we FOCUS on determines the course of our lives and that of those we love. What has been the FOCUS of 2015? What should be the FOCUS of the years to come?        Colossians 3:2 tells us where to focus. “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." Heb. 12:2 tells us on Whom to focus, "looking unto Jesus". Matt 24:42 tells why our focus needs to be correct: "Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come." Each of us has been given a race to run called the Christian life. As in any race, we cannot be looking to the right or left to see how our competition is doing (John 21:21), and we certainly cannot be looking behind us to see how those trailing are doing, or to see how far we have come. Philippians 3:13-14 says it so well; the Cunningham translation says, "We ain't there yet. Focus on one thing. Forget the past. Look to the future. One day we will see Jesus and it will be worth it all." When we were first saved, someone said to us, "Keep your eyes on Jesus,” and although we have heard that many times since, it is still as important. So many things have happened, so many people have come and gone in our lives , so many wonderful miracles and so many very trying times have been experienced, but there is a constant, a Rock on Whom we stand, Who has promised us, "I will never leave thee." So when we determine to focus on Him, He will always be there to see. Haman's one wrong FOCUS took his life. Our one FOCUS gives us life and that life more abundantly. --Pastor Jim Cunningham