Surrender Your Focus

Marriage from a Distance columnist Jennifer Miller and I noted that God is giving us the same word in different settings: focus. Whether it is a song, an article, somehow each week "focus" is something God is speaking to us. One of the ways He showed me the importance of focusing on Him is through the Wii Fit. When you work on the balance exercises, the screen will show how your core balance is. A red "marker" draws your movement against the core. A balanced core has a red mark in the middle of the board. My balance drawing looks like a child took a red pen and scribbled all over the quadrants. What's my problem on the balance board? Focus.

Just like the disciples on the boat, it is easy to place our focus on the waves, the boat, and the wind. Are you tempted to go to friends, family, email contacts, and everyplace but the Lord when there is an issue? I believe that's His message for us this year. No matter what the economy is like, what health issues we are facing, where family situations lie, He's asking our focus be on Him. First. Last. Always. 

I love the picture of this woman because it shows so many things about focusing on the Lord. Her face is beaming and she is full of joy. She is looking up, and to me, it looks like she is looking to Him. As she focuses on Him, all the other things surrounding her appear fuzzy.

When we surrender our focus and focus on Him, this is the visual I now have on how life will be. How does your balance drawing look? Is your red mark on the core or all over the place? Is your focus on the King of Kings or on people and things?

This month at Christian Women Take Root we'll discuss surrender as well as focus. I'd love to have your join us!

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart" (Hebrews 12:1-3, NIV).