2 posts tagged “focus”

He has told you, O man, what is good,

and what the Lord really wants from you:
He wants you to promote justice, to be faithful,
and to live obediently before your God.

- Micah 6:8

Here's another GC oldie. This verse always struck me with its simplicity.

It starts off with "He has told you" - in other words: This is not rocket science, people, plus it's something you already know but simply keep forgetting.

The three things are so striking: "Promote" (or "do") justice - be honest, fight for justice in society (wow, do I do this?), stand in for truth. "Be faithful" - stop backsliding, keep in step with the Spirit (don't lag behind, don't run ahead), be diligent and trustworthy. "Live obediently before your God" (or "walk humbly/carefully/cautiously with your God") - take God seriously, put yourself under His authority, be teachable and humble.

Things I often can raise above these three things may be Good Things™, but they're not what God really wants from me. Somehow, keeping my walk with God and my devotion "pure and simple" (2 Corinthians 11:3) seems to be anything but simple to really maintain.

119:37 Turn my eyes away from what is worthless! Revive me with your word!

The last week or so, it really has been "reviving" to my soul to somehow be able to wake up every morning on time to get time with God. So often my eyes are on what is "worthless" rather than on God and His Word.

I find it interesting that the prayer is for God to turn my eyes. How does one turn someone else's eyes? I wouldn't say the prayer here is for God to remote-control my eyes. Rather the way I get someone to change what they're looking at is by presenting something better to look at instead.

And this is my prayer: O God, "unveil Thy beauty to my sight that I might love Thee more."