Am I focusing on what is pure and holy? What builds others up? What adds value to my life and others? What is beneficial and healthy? What is productive?

Or am I focusing on what tears me down? What hurts and exploits others? What holds me back? What is destructive? What I know is slowly tearing and eating at my soul?

Questions I challenge myself with. Am I who I claim to be?

I try to challenge myself frequently as I tend to lose focus. I am not always solely focused on whom I need to be focused on, Jesus Christ. Right when my focus seems to be so clear, sin has a way of creeping up in my life getting me out-of-focus and even focused on the wrong things.

Although these questions are “focused” on me, maybe it will get you to take a minute and think about what you are focused on in life. Is it on what it needs to be? Whom it needs to be on? Is your focus positive or negative? What areas in your life do you need to change to get back in focus? Has your focus lead you down a destructive path and you feel hopeless, like you will never get back in focus?

I am reminded of some powerful words Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church said in one of his sermons, ”You serve a God. You were made by a God. No matter how far you’ve drifted. No matter how hard you’ve run. No matter how many battle alliances you’ve made. No matter how hopeless it seems. No matter how enslaved you are. You serve a God, a good God, who can turn your mistake into a miracle.”