FOCUS ON GOD

For my thoughts are not your thought, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

-Isaiah 55:8

For the past decades, poets, and professors have focused on “cures and successes.” You’ve probably seen the book titles such as: How to Win Over Worry, How to Think and Grow Rich, How to Conquer your fears, how to do this and that.

Nobody would deny the reality of those needs. However, our focus has been on the problems or the needs we perceive in our lives, when it should be on the Person of the Almighty. We have been so persistent in asking Him to eliminate our problems that we have failed to ask, “Could it be that my problem is the result of ignoring the guidelines which is a Sovereign, loving God laid down long ago? We’ve failed to consider the fact that when our focus is right, the entire picture comes into proper perspective.

The late A.W. Tozer had his thinking straight. A self-educated man, A.Tozer was a prophet to his generation. He was convinced that our failure to know and understand God results in our having a very distorted idea about how He works in our lives. In his book, “The knowledge of the Holy,” Tozer wrote, “Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms. We want to get Him where we can use Him, or at least know where He is when we need Him. We want a God we can in some measure control.”

What should we do when we are hurting? We’ve got to begin thinking of the problems in terms of God, rather than to put life into perspective. Understanding that He is changeless and infinite, while our problems are temporal and changing, helps us place proper value on what matters in ife.