Keeping Our Focus

Devotional: Keeping Our Focus

Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

I took a jet boat ride with my children to see the Christmas lights after dark. It took some getting used to. First, you have the movement of the water to deal with. Second, you have no frame of reference because it is dark out. And third, every time there was a place where there were really pretty Christmas lights they did a complete circle in the middle of the river so everyone could get a good view. This wasn't a wide circle but a turn on a dime. For me, it was a challenge because I had just come off of a really bad migraine and the side effects of the pain reliever I took for it. Too keep from getting motion sickness I had to glue my eyes onto the Christmas lights on shore and try to keep looking at them as we did the turn.

Lately I have been feeling like this in my life. It's like I am out in a boat after dark with no real good frame of reference, trying to keep my equilibrium with the movement of the water. There are so many holiday activities, added to the pressures of daily life, homeschooling and physical difficulties that it's easy to lose my frame of reference and equilibrium. Do you feel like this too sometimes?

As I lay in bed early this morning thinking on this, it occurred to me that just as I had to focus my eyes on the Christmas lights to keep my sense of direction and equilibrium, so it is in life. We must keep our eyes focused on Jesus if we are to maintain our frame of reference and equilibrium. With so many activities and things to do through the holiday season and life in general, especially if you homeschool too, it's easy to forget our real purpose in life and allow circumstances to get us down. It's something I struggle with a lot.

Dear Father, Thankyou for this reminder of where my focus needs to be this holiday season and always. Please help me to keep looking to Jesus and not to the circumstances that overwhelm me. In Jesus' Name, Amen