FOCUSED

"Jack of all trades and master of none."

is an expression I used to hear as a kid.

In essence it means a person can do a lot

of "stuff", but none of it real well.

As I live and move among Christians I get

much the same feeling.  We are a lot of fine

people, but no one would know we are

Christians, unless we had a name tag on

marking us as Christians.

I fear most of us are like the seed the sower

Jesus told us about that fell among the 

thorns;

"The seed that fell among the thorns

represents others who hear God's

word, but all too quickly the message

is crowded out by the worries of this 

life, the lure of wealth, and the desire

for other things, so no fruit is produced"

(Mark 4:18,19 NLT)

I do not know about you, but with all

that is going on around me, even good

stuff I am trying to do for God, I am 

easily distracted from the race I am

supposed to be running.

I need the apostle Paul's attitude regarding

life;

"I don't mean to say that I have

already achieved these things or

that I have already reached perfection.

But I press on to possess that perfection

for which Christ Jesus first possessed

me.  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."

(Philippians 3:12-14 NLT)

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