What's your Focus?

This month's devotional comes from Mr. Josiah Adams from Heritage Baptist Church in Palmyra, N.Y.  

  While hunting a couple years back I encountered something I would like to share with you. It was the last day of the 2022 gun season. My dad and I were driving in the afternoon trying to decide just where to hunt, when suddenly I said, "Stop!" The reason for my sudden excitement was that I had spotted 3 large bucks accompanied by 4 does. Well, we drove around to where we thought they might pop out of the woods, and they did! Unfortunately, I did not happen to see the bucks- just the very large doe running behind the bucks. I quickly put the crosshairs on the does shoulder and dropped the doe- then happen to notice the very large 10-to-12-point buck standing on a ridge (which unfortunately had several other hunters at the bottom). I'd say I had the wrong focus.

It is the same in many ways with our walk with the Lord! Sometimes we get so focused on the wrong thing, we miss out on what God really wants us to be doing!

So, what's your focus? 

Here's a few, Sports, your appearance, what others think of you, hunting, fishing, the newest brands, money- these things are not wrong unless you place them before the Lord. In the world we live in there are so many things that consume us or draw our attention away from God! I would like to give you 4 ways to keep your focus in the RIGHT direction.

1. Don't always buy the best of the best or don't buy it at all if it's not entirely necessary or you just don't need it.

2. Do church activities such as soul winning, helping your church family, etc.

3. Never skip church to do anything that you just 'feel like' doing instead.

4. Focus on what God's telling you instead of focusing on what you think you should be doing.

   The closest you will ever be to God is the time in your life when you are the most focused on Him!

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