Focusing on God

In our day to day lives, in the way we humans are restricted by our linear sense of time, we often find ourselves distracted by things that come our way and by things that have gone our way and by things that are coming our way. We have an inability to take a step back and see life as a whole. As a result we find ourselves overwhelmed by all that has happened and all that we believe is going to happen. The only time that we can actually do anything is the present and yet I spend most of that time trying to change the past and the future. As soon as we find ourselves focused on that we have immediately removed our focus from God. Jesus told us in Matthew 6:34 "...do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." and as the old Petra song says: "The here and now is where it is." God wants us to focus on what and who is around us right now. You may ask, "But shouldn't we prepare for the future and be good stewards of what God has given us?" Maybe, but do you not believe that God has it under control? After all, "Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?" Now you may ask, "But what about thinking about things like how we are going to witness to someone?" Well, that's all well and god unless there is someone in the same room that needs to hear the good news right now. The Bible certainly doesn't say that we should forget the past or the future but that we should be focused on what we can do with the present. We need to learn from the past and look forward to the future but past that we cannot do anything else with it. I challenge you to think about where your focus is. If it's on God I contend that it will be in the present and how you can most effectively reach those that with you now, not yesterday, not tomorrow, but right now.