Focus on Jesus (5 of 29)
Series: Hebrews
Robert Dawson
Hebrews 3:1-19
One of the struggles our kids have is just staying focused on that task at hand. Their minds flit from one thing to another. If you send them to clean up their room and then go check on their progress - you need to go check on their progress - what you often discover is that little progress is being made. Rather than cleaning their rooms they are in the middle of an even bigger mess because they decided to play with the toys they were supposed to be cleaning!
I can't get too upset because they get it naturally. I have a difficult time staying on task at times. If I am working around the house - cleaning the house - the yards I generally have a few specific things I want to do. I want to weed-eat, weed and mow but instead I wind up with a tree down. I want to clean the bathrooms, vacuum and dust but instead wind up with an entire closet or cabinet spilled out into a room. I struggle to stay on task.
Most of us have had that experience in life - I doubt seriously I or my children are the only people who struggle to stay on task. The greater danger for me and you is not cleaning closets when we should be vacuuming floors of felling trees when we should be weeding the garden.
The great danger is that we will lose focus in the area that matters most in life - our relationship with Jesus Christ. We have all gotten distracted and veered off course in our spiritual journey. We lose our focus because we become sidetracked by less important things - temporary things. We fill our minds and our hearts with things that don't really matter.
The Jewish Christians to whom the letter of Hebrews was written were in danger of getting of course. They were in danger of abandoning the course altogether. Because of intense pressure - mounting and intensifying persecution some of them were walking away from the Christian faith while others were simply struggling to stand firm in the face of opposit ...
Series: Hebrews
Robert Dawson
Hebrews 3:1-19
One of the struggles our kids have is just staying focused on that task at hand. Their minds flit from one thing to another. If you send them to clean up their room and then go check on their progress - you need to go check on their progress - what you often discover is that little progress is being made. Rather than cleaning their rooms they are in the middle of an even bigger mess because they decided to play with the toys they were supposed to be cleaning!
I can't get too upset because they get it naturally. I have a difficult time staying on task at times. If I am working around the house - cleaning the house - the yards I generally have a few specific things I want to do. I want to weed-eat, weed and mow but instead I wind up with a tree down. I want to clean the bathrooms, vacuum and dust but instead wind up with an entire closet or cabinet spilled out into a room. I struggle to stay on task.
Most of us have had that experience in life - I doubt seriously I or my children are the only people who struggle to stay on task. The greater danger for me and you is not cleaning closets when we should be vacuuming floors of felling trees when we should be weeding the garden.
The great danger is that we will lose focus in the area that matters most in life - our relationship with Jesus Christ. We have all gotten distracted and veered off course in our spiritual journey. We lose our focus because we become sidetracked by less important things - temporary things. We fill our minds and our hearts with things that don't really matter.
The Jewish Christians to whom the letter of Hebrews was written were in danger of getting of course. They were in danger of abandoning the course altogether. Because of intense pressure - mounting and intensifying persecution some of them were walking away from the Christian faith while others were simply struggling to stand firm in the face of opposit ...
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