Friday, April 6, 2007

Focus

Did you know that unbelief is a sin?
Well that is what the Holy Spirit has been teaching me lately, through different circumstances in my life. Reading this scripture today crowned it all. Hebrews 3:12-14

12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. 14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.

There are many times God has shown His promises to me, how He will never leave me nor forsake me and that in everything He has my interests at heart. But time and again I find my self falling back to doubts and fears influenced by what I see going on around me, around the world, everywhere. I felt like He was telling me to focus, to keep my eyes on Him and what He says and not what the world is showing or how I am feeling. This is the typical experience of the Israelites being led out of Egypt, they complained a lot, every after a miracle they would be quiet for a bit but soon forget and start complaining again. They failed to look at the bigger picture, the bigger God but were engrossed in petty issues. I guess that why it took them forty years to get to the promised land and sadly non of the people who started the journey actually made to the land because they died on the way. That says a lot doesn't it?

I have been anxious about the future, what will happen in a few months when Sam starts his internship and is not home as often as I would have loved, or where we will stay when we get back from Dallas, let alone the crazy heat that everybody talks about in Dallas. There have been a whole lot of things on my mind and just when I was indulging in this worry the Holy Spirit quickened my mind to Philippians 4:6-7 that says;

6Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Help me Lord to see you as you really are, The Almighty God.