You might not know this but I love to hunt. I don’t really care what it is I’m hunting for I just want to be out spending time outdoors and hunting for game. The problem is a lot of times no matter what planning and preparing I have done in order to be successful hunting I sometimes lose my focus and miss my target.
Not too long ago I decided to go deer hunting early in the morning. I arrived at my prepared location and with layers of clothes bundled up for warmth I waited for the sun to rise in hopes of seeing a nice buck. As I waited patiently in the dark my body was telling me how tired I was and I drifted off to sleep. When I awoke it was about an hour past sunrise and I was extremely aggravated with myself for falling asleep. I open my eyes wide and began searching the area for any deer that might have slipped in while I was getting some shut eye. There were no deer but there was a red fox about 50 yards from where I was sitting. I began to watch the fox as he was hunting some prey himself. It was extremely interesting to watch him. He was a skilled hunter and after sometime he was able to catch his prey and ran off with it. I once again notice that I had been focused so much on the fox that I had missed any opportunity of seeing a deer. Packing up that morning I knew that the main reason I was unable to be successful was I didn’t keep my focus on the target. At that point it didn’t matter that I had spent weeks finding the perfect spot to hunt, that I had spent hours on setting up a camouflage ground blind so that I wouldn’t be seen, that I had made sure to sight my gun in, and do all the other preparation. It was all lost due to me not staying focused on the task at hand.
Deuteronomy 4:29 "But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Why is it so easy to lose our focus? I remember a story in the bible where Peter was able to walk on water by faith, until he took his eyes off Jesus, looking at the storm around him instead. Not staying focused can cause us to take our eyes off the Lord. Maybe we lose our focus due to friends with the wrong intentions, rude people, unfair situations, or just life’s problems. People will either on purpose or innocently cause to stray from doing what God has called you to do. Remember that our lives here on this earth have a purpose to serve God and no one else. Our lives are not aimless, but they are to have a purpose and direction, and we are to stay focused on the purpose, running straight at that goal. Keep focused on the purpose for which God has created you.
We all want to be able to say like Paul, “I am running straight to the goal with purpose in every Step.” 1 Corinthians 9:26
In Him,
Joe
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