Focusing On What Matters

August 04, 2015 | By Chuck

"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."(II Cor.4:18) A question I have to ask myself from time to time is am I focused on what matters. I think at times we all struggle a little with having and maintaining the right focus. If we're honest, I think we"d all agree that sometimes our focus just isn't where it should be. I don't know about you but I have a tendency to focus on what I can see. The external things of this life from schedules and plans to worries and burdens often take my focus from where it should be. As challenging as it might be, we Christians must work hard every day to keep our focus on the spiritual. On Sunday when we're all gathered praising God and studying from His Word we're focused on the spiritual. What about the rest of the week? It's a natural thing to focus on what we can see, but Paul encourages his readers to focus on the unseen spiritual things. It's those unseen spiritual things that really matter because those are the things that are eternal. We give so much of our focus and attention to things that are temporary. We get so stressed out and overwhelmed by temporary things in this life when we should be focused on the unseen spiritual things that are eternal. Let's challenge ourselves daily to focus on the spiritual things that are eternal instead of all the physical worries of this life.