Bulls-eye!

Image by Franck Barske from Pixabay

​Have you ever watched archery?  When you pay attention to the archer, you can see the intense focus involved.  They are not focused on the watchers.  They are not focused on the noise around them.  In fact, they aren't focused on all the rings in the target...except for that center one.  Indeed, it's really the only thing they are focused on.  They focus on the bulls-eye and they do the precise things that they have trained to do.   The wind could gust, an arrow could break, a bird could fly in front of the arrow's path, it could start to rain.  These are all things totally out of the archer's control.

What if we lived life like the archer?  What if we ignored all the other rings....and just focused on the bulls-eye?  What if all we focused on was Jesus?  And what if all we worried about and worked on were the things within our control?  

I can't always control when bad things happen, when people get hurt, when pandemics hit, when economic downturns occur, when...., when.... There is so much out of our control.  
I can focus on THE ONE who is in control.  I can choose to seek Him first in all that I do. I can choose to respond to my circumstances in His wisdom, in His gratitude, and in His love.

But first and most importantly seek (aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right—the attitude and character of God], and all these things will be given to you also.  ~Matthew 6:33 (AMP)

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