Prov 24:27 Finish your outdoor work and get your fields ready; after that, build your house. NIV
I’ve been thinking a lot about ways to share Jesus with our community, and as I was reading Father’s Word this morning, this scripture jumped out at me. Although the obvious and primary application of it was referring to a people who’s occupation was primarily agricultural, it’s wisdom speaks also to us today about our life focus.
Too many of us are backwards to the way this scripture instructs us to be- we focus our primary energies on building up our lives, our homes, our families. This focus is not wrong; we should be attentive to these things. However, it is not to be THE thing in our lives.
The stress that threatens to overwhelm us as we try to fulfill multiple roles in life- spouse, provider, good employee, student, Christian worker, ect is the result of a wrong focus, and it makes us feel like the Dutch boy that keeps sticking fingers in the leaking dike. It’s a truly futile effort that if not corrected in time, will lead to all that stress building up to a breaking point until it bursts out of us in ways that will bring great damage to our lives and testimonies.
However, if our focus is on Jesus, none of this will be a burden or even feel like work to us if the Son of God is what we have our eyes on. Jesus is to be the first, middle, last and all encompassing focus of our lives. If that is the case, all the other aspects of life that we are responsible for will fall into place naturally.
That is one of the best evangelic tools we have- the peace of God in what seems to be a very busy and hectic life. We have the Blood of the Lamb covering our sins, the word of our testimony going before us and defining who we are, and everyone sees that these first two premises prove the third- we do not love this life so much as to shirk from death. We can’t be afraid of death, we have already died and have been risen in Christ! We shouldn’t be drawn to the things of this world, we are ambassadors of another realm. Our focus on Jesus makes us dead to hardship, as the joy of our risen Lord strengthens us. This is the secret to living the overcoming life.
The world is crying out for something to give them that kind of joy, peace, and fulfillment. Will your witness in the way you live your life show them that “something”, or better yet, “someone”?
Ask yourself today- where is my focus? The answer will determine how you live not only this day, but your life.
Love and blessings!
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