Focused Reality
Are we victims of our circumstances? We can’t always choose the circumstances around us. There is pain and sorrow in this world. Sometimes we feel like we are wandering into the night. Wanting a place to hide. Where you feel like a weary soul, this bag of bones. You’ve tried with all [your] mind. You feel like you just can't win the fight. You are just slowly drifting (Maverick City Music, I Thank God).
Before David became king of Israel, he was on the run for his life, being chased by the current king. He and his men were tired. Hungry. And they felt isolated from their people. David writes I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears. My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes (Psalm 6:3-4). David didn’t choose this way, but believed he was following what God called him to do. So the question remains…
Are we victims of our circumstances? Or do we have a part to play in the outcome? When it comes to the blessings of God, I believe it’s both. We can choose to blame the world around us. Blame our circumstances. Or maybe, just maybe, we can change our perspective. Perhaps we can change the attitude of our hearts. Just after David wrote of the anguish of his circumstances, he wrote this:
Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them (Psalm 8:1-4)?
David’s circumstances hadn’t changed… His perspective did. Your circumstances may not change. You may still be in grief, or anxiety, or conflict. Perhaps it’s time to change the focus of your attention. To look up and say He picked me up. He turned me around. He placed my feet on solid ground. I thank the Master. I thank the Savior. Because He healed my heart. He changed my name. Forever free, I'm not the same. I thank the Master. I thank the Savior. I thank God (Maverick City Music, I Thank God).
Your focus becomes your reality today. Where’s yours?
Before David became king of Israel, he was on the run for his life, being chased by the current king. He and his men were tired. Hungry. And they felt isolated from their people. David writes I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears. My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes (Psalm 6:3-4). David didn’t choose this way, but believed he was following what God called him to do. So the question remains…
Are we victims of our circumstances? Or do we have a part to play in the outcome? When it comes to the blessings of God, I believe it’s both. We can choose to blame the world around us. Blame our circumstances. Or maybe, just maybe, we can change our perspective. Perhaps we can change the attitude of our hearts. Just after David wrote of the anguish of his circumstances, he wrote this:
Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them (Psalm 8:1-4)?
David’s circumstances hadn’t changed… His perspective did. Your circumstances may not change. You may still be in grief, or anxiety, or conflict. Perhaps it’s time to change the focus of your attention. To look up and say He picked me up. He turned me around. He placed my feet on solid ground. I thank the Master. I thank the Savior. Because He healed my heart. He changed my name. Forever free, I'm not the same. I thank the Master. I thank the Savior. I thank God (Maverick City Music, I Thank God).
Your focus becomes your reality today. Where’s yours?
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