Today’s devotional is from Max Lucado’s Grace for the Moment
A Focus to Life
Work as if you were doing
it for the Lord, not for people.
Colossians 3:23
When do we get our first clue that [Jesus] knows he is the Son of God? In the temple of Jerusalem. He is twelve years old. His parents are three days into the return trip to Nazareth before they notice he is missing. They find him in the temple studying with the leaders….
As a young boy, Jesus already senses the call of God. But what does he do next? Recruit apostles and preach sermons and perform miracles? No he goes home to his folks and learns the family business.
That is exactly what you should do. Want to bring focus to your life? Do what Jesus did. Go home, love your family, and take care of business. But Max, I want to be a missionary. Your first mission field is under your roof. What makes you think they’ll believe you overseas if they don’t believe you across the hall?
Just Like Jesus
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Isn’t that just like us humans? We are so concerned with saving the world but we forget to look inside our own house. It seems to be a common theme throughout the Bible. Something about a log in your eye, or was it mine?
I know this is something I have always struggled with, it seems our focus always gets directed away by all the shiny objects or injustice that we see outside, “in the world”.
Most recently, my focus has been redirected back home by my child starting school. That combined with all of the articles and news stories on indoctrination.
I, we, need to focus on God and expanding his presence in our home and our families lives. Our kids must know God, so that when they are pelted with arrows of evil, they will know the Truth and the only way.
Once we have established, or re-established, that foundation, then we can start venturing out but always maintaining that foundation on the Rock.
May Peace Be With You!
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