Focus Verses: Philippians 3:13-14 "No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us."
What gets you out of bed in the morning? What is your passion in life? Read our focus verses again. The apostle Paul had it figured out. He said I focus on one thing, “forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.” That’s a really good objective for those who are in Christ because some people have bad habits, wrong motives or a really bad past with regrets and shame. We can get stuck on our shame, but Jesus has taken our shame. We can’t change the past so forget it and turn away from it and look forward to what’s ahead. God makes all things new. Let’s press forward in our race to what God has planned for us now and in the future. In Psalm 24:4 David says “The one thing I ask of the Lord, the thing I seek most, is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord’s perfections and meditating in his Temple.”
There are many things in this world that we could make as our “one thing” to focus on. Some people have made money, friends, hobbies, family, pleasure, education, a house, a vehicle, a job, their “one thing.” These things are not bad things, but when you make these things more important in your life than God, then that is a problem.
Let’s make sure our “one thing” is Jesus. Nothing should be more important in our lives than Jesus. We show Jesus that He’s our “one thing” when we spend time reading God’s Word and talking with Him in prayer. So today let’s think about Jesus as the most important thing in out lives.
Bobby Johnson
Interlocking Ministries
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