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Focus            
 

When you read, hear or think of the word “focus” what comes to your mind?  The American Heritage Dictionary here in the office has multiple definitions for the word focus.  Here are two of them “The distinctness or clarity with which an optical system renders an image” the second is this “Adjustment for distinction or clarity.”
 
How is your focus?  Are you making adjustments for distinction and clarity? 
 
If everything in our lives were stationary like a bridge or statue we would only need to focus once.  Life and ministry are far from stationary like a statue, they are more like a young child who is constantly running, jumping, bending, rolling and making every kind of new movement possible.  Without constantly focusing (making adjustments for distinction or clarity) the target, goal or vision becomes blurry.
 
Is Jesus stationary in your life or is He actively moving in new areas?  As I read the gospels I am amazed at how frequently the disciples were making adjustments to keep up with Him.  Their beliefs, attitudes and behaviors were constantly being adjusted by what Jesus was up to at that moment.  Would He open someone’s eyes, cast out a demon, multiply a loaf of bread or raise someone from the dead?  None of which were commonplace.
 
It would have been easy for the disciples to become confused and lose focus as some of them did in John 6:66.  Jesus teaching goes against the grain of religious systems and our natural understanding.  To top that off there were many things battling for the disciples attention, time and focus.