Make Sure To Focus On The Right Subject
Have you ever taken a photograph, one that you only had one chance at? When that moment was gone you looked at the photo and the right subject was out of focus, instead a leaf a few from the lens was the main attraction?
A gentleman was just in my office. He was recalling a bike ride that by all metrics was a good ride but he said when he got done with the ride it was a terrible ride because he was focused on one number that was not to his liking.
Have you ever noticed that your energy is contagious?
If I walk in the door from work and I have focused on the wrong metrics all day my spirit is bad and that same spirit descends like a dangerous fog over the entire house. The children have short tempers with each other, or they are quiet around me. Cecilia is too.
But if I change my focus to the positive. If I dwell on good things all day when I walk into the house its as if the sun came out for the first time in spring. My children show me the drawing they did at school or they build me things out of legos. My wife sings while she prepares dinner.
In life, like taking a photograph, make sure to set your focus on the right things.
4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; 6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9 What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2025), Php 4:4–9.
Bless you,
Pastor.