Focused

I have been a Christian a long time, for 18 years. I have been through a lot with my Savior. We have had ups and downs (because of me and my stubborness). I truly want to get deeper with God. I dont want a surface level relationship with Him. I want to go deeper daily. I am not satisfied with anything else. I want to know him more and more and more.

I think a good way to do this is for me to truly become more like Jesus. I think the only way to do that is to really know who Jesus was and is. I am going to focus on his attributes and look at how I can apply it to my life and how I can live like He did. I want to know Him so personally it radiates from me. I want to know as much about Him as I can. I am going to share this journey with you not so I can be glorified and people can look at me and say, Oh what a good Christian. Honestly, I could care less. I do want people to know I am a Christian but not because of the words I write on some blog but by the way I live my life.

The first attribute that came to my mind when I thought about Jesus was focused. He was so focused!!! He came to earth for a reason and he accomplished that. He did not waiver or stumble. He stayed focused on what He was here for and accomplished this! He knew He would come to die but stayed focus on why He came and what His coming would accomplish. He never sinned and was one radical man!!

How I will apply this to my life: First of all, I am going to stay focused on learning more about who Jesus was and how I can live like Him. Second, I am going to focus on my daily actions and how those around me benefit from them or do not benefit for them. I need to also stay focused in prayer. Honestly, prayer is a difficult thing for me. Not because I dont believe God is there or hears me but because I get SO distracted. My mind starts going a million miles minute and before I know it I am not praying but planning out something in my head, or thinking about a list of some kind of things I need to do, etc, etc. I really want to work on remaining focused on prayer and during prayer. I think prayer is the only way to really get closer to God. It is our only way communicate with God and you can not get closer to someone without communication. I think not only trying to live like Jesus but focused prayer will be the key in going deeper than I ever have.

Where do you need to focus?? What is it in your life that you are distracted by??? Is it a person, a job, material things??? I hope you can focus just like Jesus was focused!

I hope your day is wonderful and FOCUSED :)