Focus

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary one of the definitions of focus is: directed attention.

In my last post I said that I've been a little sidetracked lately and I have. Do to a series of events I've lost focus on some of the things that are important to me, like this blog. I've let my attention be directed by a weakness that has plaque me for years. Even though I've spent a lot of time working through this lust the enemy knows how to use it against me. I was being led down a path that I knew was not good for me, but I went along anyway. This is nobody's fault but mine. Fortunately because of my awareness of this weakness , the years of lessons learned, and the support of a close friend I've been able to take the proper steps to curtail the repeat of old unwanted behaviors that obstruct God's blessings for me.

In my last post I also stated that this obsession was not necessarily unhealthy, that was denial. I thought it was no big deal and that I could handle it on my own, I was wrong. The enemy knows how to play games with the mind, even though I knew what was happening I let it go on much longer than I should have.

I apologize for my loss of focus and letting you and myself down. Helping men through the struggles of life has been my mission for some time now and I intend to continue to do so. The good news is that out of this experience I have a heightened awareness of the enemy's ploys and I can use this in the future to help other men through a similar struggle.

What would happen today if we were so in-tuned to the enemy's games that we could resist his distractions? What would happen today if we set up clear boundaries and adhered to them at all costs? What would happen today if we talked through our struggles with each other as men in the brotherhood of God? What would happen today if we followed our hearts instead of our lusts?

What would happen today...?

Romans 7:18-20 (NIV)

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature ( my flesh). For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. ²⁰Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.