Thursday, December 15, 2011

Complete Focus


Recently the plea was expressed:
God help me focus completely on you.
As a photographer, let me help you out on that:

1) Is your aperture stuck?
So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town. And when He had spit on his eyes, and put His hands on him, He asked him if he saw anything? And he looked up and said, "I see men like trees, walking." Mark 8:23-24.
2)Is your lens cap on?
But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. 2 Corin. 4:3-4.
3)Is your shutter speed off?
So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. James 1:19-20.
4)Is the battery dead?
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Romans 6:11-12.
5)Have you read the manual?
But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:14-15.
6)Is it daylight?
Then Jesus said to them, "A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. While you have light, believe in the light that you may become sons of light."
John 12:35-36.
7)Is God even in front of you?
And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each of us. Acts 17:26-27.
8)Is the lens clean?
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I am known.
I Corin. 13:12.
9)Do you really want complete focus?
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire. Hebrews 12:28-29.
10)Then go ahead and focus completely.
Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to who be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Hebrew 13:20-21.
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