Glory be to God!
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💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: Don't be up on a rooftop somewhere, looking at stuff you have no business looking at and then you fall into sin! How can we ever forget the sin of King David with Bathsheba. King David on a little sabbatical from the rigorous toils of battle, was up on his rooftop one day when he spotted a beautiful woman taking a bath! David was instantly distracted and had to have this woman. He ordered that she be brought to him, and they started to have an adulterous affair, for she was married to Uriah, the Hittite. Not long after, she became pregnant. In order to conceal their affair, David then ordered that Uriah be moved to the front-line of a battle, where he was killed! David, for this moment in history, lost focus! Instead of meditating on his love for God as we see portrayed in the Psalms, the King got distracted by Bathsheba's beauty and ended up falling into sin. And then God pronounced His judgment and their baby died! David repented! But not without such agony and tragedy that transpired because he got distracted and lost focus!
There's many things that fight for our attention. We can categorize them as "the cares of life." But if we allow these things to pull our attention away from Jesus, we will end up as wandering lost sheep! Never forget beloved, we have an enemy who prowls around like a roaring lion looking for lost sheep who gets easily distracted! And these distractions comes in the form of the "lust of the flesh," "the lust of the eyes," and "the pride of life!" Another tool of Satan's, is to get you to focus on "self" so much to the point that we start to meditate on our hurts, frustrations, pains, and past traumas. This is a huge distraction that can cause depression and anxiety, if you let it!! Once you start focusing on things that troubles you, rather than how you can help Jesus in His harvest (the recovery mission of lost souls), the weight of that heavy meditation will cause you to de-press. This will cause you to shipwreck in your faith because your eyes are no longer on Jesus, but what's troubling you! This is where many of us lose focus!
So to stay focus for 2023 and beyond, Lord willing, is to set our minds on things above! Philippians 4:8 tells us what to set our minds on so that we are not distracted by worldly superficial activities and ways to indulge the flesh. This is what we are to think on:
"Whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by God’s word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things [center your mind on them, and implant them in your heart]" (Philippians 4). Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!
