Focus

How many times has your focus changed in your life and you have taken your eyes off of Christ? 

Or, are you doubting what you're doing because you are so tired and exhausted that you don't even know what you're doing anymore?

Or, you feel cold and you're just so tired and exhausted that you just can't do what you feel God called you to do?

What do you do in those times of trials? Do you just give up? Or do you push through and keep your eyes focused on Christ? In my times of trials, I know I have done both. Right now, tough decisions are to be made on what I feel God has called me to do and me fighting this feeling of exhaustion and wanting to give up. 

Peter did that. When he saw Jesus walk on the water and asked Jesus for him to do the same, Jesus said to come and he walked on the water to Jesus. But before he got there, he noticed the storm and fear set in. He started to sink. but Jesus pulled him up. He acknowledged the lack of faith that Peter had. 

My battle right now is my commitment to the missions. I love doing this, but for some reason there is a struggle, a battle, right now with me. I have so much other things going on around me. I know that I am being distracted but I am having to take a look at where my heart is right now. 

Our lack of faith shows when we are exhausted and ready to give up, hang in the towel, tap out. But Jesus will give us strength to push through. This trial, this storm, is meant to be there to make us lean on Christ. It will only make us stronger. This is the lesson that we are to learn from our trials. They will come, we will get tired. but to trust in God to be on the other side of the storm waiting for us is our reward. 

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,

    before you were born I set you apart" Jeremiah 1:5

So many things we focus on, things that are wrong that take our eyes off of Jesus and we don't see what good is being done. 

#fixyoureyesonjesus

Love to all,