Where is Your Focus?

   Have you ever used a digital camera? If you have you know that a camera has many parts that help it to focus. It is important for the camera to be able to focus otherwise the picture isn't clear.
   Our eyes also have many parts that help us focus on things. We choose where we look and what we look past. Try this: pick up a pencil and hold it an arm’s length away right in front of your face. Look at the pencil. The background behind the pencil probably looks blurry. Now look past the pencil at the background. The pencil should have become blurry.
   It's funny how God made our eyes work. We are only able to focus on one thing at a time, either what is in front of us or what is past it. 
   We can relate this to our lives. We can focus on what is closest to us. We have that choice. We can choose to focus on the problems closest to us. Interestingly enough most of the time it is just one little problem that we focus on, just like the pencil was little. Or, we can choose to look past the problem at the big picture. When we look at the big picture our problem comes out of focus and we see it isn't that big at all.
   That's the view that God has. Many people say that Christians saying "everything happens for a reason" is a cop out. They want us to stop saying that because we can't explain why we say it. We just say over and over that God has a plan.
   But, if we think of our problems like that pencil then we can see our problems the way God sees them. None of us know the future. We just know what is happening right now. All we see is the pencil. 
   God is able to see that pencil/problem woven within the big picture. He knows why that problem is important in your life and he's willing to help you with that problem. We just need to ask him for help. If we lean on God then he can help us past those problems. He can help us come to him and grow in him, as long as our focus stays on him instead of our problems.
   So, will you focus on the little problems you have? Will you choose to lean on God during your problems? Will you trust that God has a plan for your life?

   2 Corinthians 4:18, Romans 8:28, Proverbs 3:5-6
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