FOCUSED
Today's reading:  Psalm 119

"My eyes strain to see your deliverance, to see the truth of your promise fulfilled."  Psalm 119:123 NLT

I have a prayer request list a mile long.  It's full of names, it lists issues I'm heartbroken about, it has on it events and needs requiring God's attention.

But I'm not looking at my list.  If I did, I could easily be overwhelmed.  I might become discouraged.  I might think about it too much and determine it useless--and throw in the towel.

I have to focus on God.  Not my needs.  Not my wants.  Not my plans and how I believe God should move in and around them, but on God.

It's easy to provide Him a 'grocery list' of things to do, it's hard to trust Him with working them out in His time and in His way. 

So I choose to look to Him.  I choose to squint my eyes in expectation of miracles and answers.  I have decided to watch for Him to move in each and every one of my requests, based on His unfailing love and faithfulness to me.  I have determined that I'm looking to His answers and grace instead of at the problems on my list.

I'm focusing my attention on God!

A genuine Christian should be a walking mystery because he is surely a walking miracle. Through the leading and the power of the Holy Spirit, the Christian is involved in a daily life and habit that cannot be explained.                                                           -A. W. Tozer