Yom Rishon, Tammuz 9, 6003 – June 24, 2018
Focus On Life
This morning I found myself in a bit of a funk. It seemed like there were all these things around me that were not going as hoped. As I was sharing this via text with a friend, I began to see an issue. Humans end up where they focus. In driving it is important to keep our eyes on where we want to be because we will steer to where we are looking, to where our focus is. It seems that this may be a life trait. We have to “see” what we want and expect, and then that will come to pass as we “drive” toward it. And of course, it has to be within the will of our Father. If we focus on things here in this world, we will drive towards the things in this world.
1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Yeshuah (Jesus) our Messiah told us of this, and He also lived it. No matter where He was, or what was going on, He looked and listend to see what our Father was saying and doing. We need to be just like that ourselves, as He instructed us.
Matthew 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
This mystery of going in the direction of our focus is described by Messiah.
Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
“The eye is the light of the body” seems to indicate that what we focus on fills every part of us. The word for “evil” means laborious, annoyances, or hardships. The word for “single” means simple. If we can be like our Messiah Yeshuah, and focus on what the Father is doing, we will be able to filled with that focus, “seeing” it internally, and having it fill us with joy.
I want to remember to focus on the things of the Father, and have that joy fill me.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King. Praise the name YAH! Let Your kingdom come here in the hearts and minds of mankind. Let Your will be done here perfectly as it is in heaven. Send us now Your overwhelming provision that it might overflow to those around us. Deliver us from the evil here. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have trespassed or transgressed against us. Deliver us from the evil here. Wipe away all thoughts and memories of the evil done to us or by us. In their place let there be only thoughts and memories of You and Your love toward us. Restore Your people Father, and draw them close. Restore unto Your people of all the good that has been eaten, taken, or held back in any way, and the more besides. Send in quickly the $424,923,962.53 that we might use it to promote Your kingdom here in the hearts and minds of mankind. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). We ask all these things of You, Father, in Your name YAH. We ask all these things in the name YAH Yeshuah. Amen.