Staying Focused

"Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, watching at the posts of my door."

Proverbs 8:34 KJV

Have you ever looked up at the sky and watched the clouds move from one place to another? Watching the clouds assemble into figures that seem to be recognizable can cause you to become focused on the beauty of God’s glory.

In our daily lives, we rely on our eyes to help us see and focus on the glory of God. Have you ever taken your eyes off of God? Have you allowed your focus to be consumed by hatred, jealousy, bitterness, prejudice, gossip, malice, or worldly things?

Examine yourself today and see when you have taken your focus off God’s divine way as you progressed throughout your day. Staying focused takes discipline. If we keep our focus on God, we will be able to see how God is moving the clouds out of our lives, clearing our vision so we will be able to see and focus on the glory of God and his righteousness.

Let us pray:

Lord, when we are consumed by our daily events that we cannot see you clearly, please help us to regain our focus on you. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

Rev. Sheilah Y. Robinson,

Itinerant Elder

Quinn Chapel AMEC, Louisville, KY

Cast the Vision

“As for the future, your task is not to foresee, but to enable it. It is not for us to stalk the vision, the vision is stalking us.”
A Native American saying.

God of the old and the New Year, calm our fears about an uncertain future. Imbue us with power not our own and strengthen our resolve to enable a favored and fabulous future.

We will be still today to see the vision stalking us. We will be silent to hear your still small voice unfold its mysteries. We will be open to your instructions on how to enable the vision. We will write the vision and make it plain. We will be patient and even if it tarries we will wait for it, not run ahead of the vision stalking. And, so be it.

Habakkuk 2: 1-3