Where’s your focus?

Where are you focusing these days? When you rise in the morning and lie down at night, are you consumed by the day’s events or personal struggles that plague you, or do you cast your cares on Him? Do you search for solace in food or drink to assuage the unrest, or do you feast on His word to find your peace?

The worldly panaceas offering relief from the cares and burdens are available, but do they really help or change the situation? For the children of God, the ones Christ calls his brethren, our solace is met at the cross.

The world is a battlefield for control of our minds. The combat skirmishes will always be here until we’re promoted to heaven, but there is assurance that in Him, our battles are already won. Our deliverance is met in Jesus.

When struggles and trials seem bound to grab your soul and squeeze out your peace, rejoice in the Lord and count it all joy as the book of James states. Why? You have the Lord! Your trials and temptations are no match for the King. He uses these things to conform his children to be more like Jesus…to make us stronger. Let Him do a good work in you by faithfully keeping your mind on Him.