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It is so easy for life to get in the way of Life. So many things occupy our time and thinking we are tempted to have no focus at all. We just flit from circumstance to circumstance, thought to thought or day to day, never really being grounded in the reality of the truth. Just like looking through a pair of binoculars that has not been focused, everything around us can appear blurred. Life can seem fuzzy, confusing and without purpose. It is when we have adjusted our focus that we can actually see the true image in front of us. The object was there all the time. It was our lack of focus that obscured it. That true image is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation" (Colossians 1:15). God sent His Son to become the Son of Man so that through His miraculous birth, sinless life, sacrificial death and bodily resurrection, you could have a personal relationship with Him. The only way to come to God the Father is through the truth. "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me" (John 14:6). By faith in this truth, you come to understand that God loves you and wants to spend eternity with you. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). For most of us there is a lot of life left after our new birth. How do we get through day-by-day events - some pleasant and comfortable, many difficult and painful? The only way to handle all the changes and uncertainties of life is to keep your feet firmly planted on the one foundation that is unshakeable and unchangeable. Many people think God is only concerned about the major issues of your life - what college you will attend, who you marry, what career you choose, where you will live, etc. They don't want to bother God with the minutiae of everyday living. The God who knows when every sparrow falls to the ground and numbers the very hairs on your head wants you to rest in the assurance that He cares about everything in your life. As El Roi (the God who sees me), you can "[Cast] all your care upon Him for He cares for you" (1 Peter 5:7). If it concerns you, it matters to Him. When you understand God's desire to be intimately involved in every aspect of your life, it is easy to see His hand in your everyday affairs. You don't have to understand it all, but trusting Him with the results brings clarity to an otherwise out-of-focus view of life. "One Focus - A Daily Encouragement to Keep Your Eyes on Jesus" includes the author's reflections on this reality with the hope that they will help you keep focused on the gift that God has given you - His Son Jesus Christ as your Savior, His desire to have you as a part of His eternal family and His intimate involvement with every detail of your life. "You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You because he trusts in You" (Isaiah 26:3). One focus is a choice and it makes all the difference.

As a pastor's wife in the U.S. and Germany and now as Vice President of Xtend Ministries International, Stephanie B. Blake has been writing her own material for conferences and Bible studies for over thirty years. She maintains two websites: www.onefocusministries.com and www.stretchmoney.wordpress.com and has written two other books: "The Prayer Driven Life" and "Money: How to Be Rich Without It and How to Stretch It Using Ten Hints from the Past and the Technology of Today". Stephanie is grateful to God for a Christian family: her father (now in Heaven) and his family; her husband and his family; her sons and their wives and six grandchildren. She sees the hand of God everywhere and feels called to share the exciting truth of God's love with others through her teaching, writing and personal relationships.