Shift Your Focus

What is the focus of 99% of the sermons that are preached in the pulpits of the churches of America each Sunday? Wouldn't you agree that it would be "YOU"?

1. How YOU can be better.
2. How YOU can feel better.
3. How YOU can be saved.
4. How YOU can be rich.
5. How YOU are not doing what you're supposed to be doing.
6. How YOU don't measure up to King David.
7. How YOU can make a difference.
8. How YOU are loved.
9. How YOU are special.
10. How YOU are more-than-an-overcomer.
11. How YOU should spend your time.
12. HOW YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU . . . . .

I think you get the picture. But what was the focus of Jesus? Wasn't the Son's focus the Father? Wasn't everything He did a reflection of what He saw the Father do? Wasn't everything He said an echo of what He heard the Father say? Would you disagree that Jesus focused on bringing glory to the Father, and not so much Himself or others?

John 5:19-20 -

19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.

20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

John 5:30 -

30 I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

Jesus was focused on what the Father was doing. He wanted to know what God wanted. He wasn't interested in promoting His own cause, but that of the Father.

What would happen if for one day, all of the people who called themselves "Christian" in your church concerned themselves with focusing on the will of God for that day in stead of their own? Do you think their schedules would look the same? Do you think their priorities would remain unchanged?

What would happen if we shifted our focus from glorifying ourselves to glorifying the Father? Would we fall behind in our civic duties? Would we neglect our families and loved ones? Or worse yet: would we neglect our jobs? God forbid!