Problem Focused Or Solution Driven?
Matthew 6:32-34 (Amplified Bible)
32For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.
33But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.
34So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.
The other week I came in from being out with my mother to a hysterical child. My daughter was visibly shaken and teary eyed. She was overwhelmed by something and I knew I had to get to the issue at hand. When I left she was calm and laughing, her normal jovial self, now the child I left was nowhere to be found. I soon found out that she had spent the evening on the internet reviewing colleges that had her intended major, and the qualifications to her were overwhelming. She recognized that level of course she needed in some areas she had not taken, and she was in fear that she would not be able to go to the one school that she desired, and she was unsure of the other schools. After I let her vent and go off for a minute, I had to respond. I asked her first did she not have faith to know that God was able to get her through all she needed to do, and did she not know that there was more than one way to do what she needed to get done? I told her she was so busy focused on the issues and problems that she missed, what could be done to solve the problem.
We too do the same thing. We become Peter, when Jesus bid him to come to Him on the water; we are great as long as we are looking at Jesus. As long as we are recognizing who He is, His power, His abilities and His overwhelming love for us. But the minute we begin to see all the things that are going on, all the things that are going on around us, coming at us, or down on us, we begin to become consumed, overwhelmed and sucked in by them. Despair is what we begin to put on and our confessions begin to be ones that identify defeat and inability. The same God that was in the midst of circumstance a minute ago that we were walking to and had His hands extended out to us, is still there He has not gone anywhere. But it is us who chooses to walk by sight instead of by faith. It is faith that helps us to please God and move closer to Him. It is our ability to keep focused that allows us to walk on circumstances and situations that would otherwise harm us.
What has got you sinking? What has caused you to lose your focus on God and direct it elsewhere? Place your face in the Master’s face, your faith in the Master’s abilities. Jesus is greater than ANY situation that we face, and any circumstance that we encounter. Lift up your head of ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors; and the king of glory shall come in. Who is the King of Glory the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle! (Psalms 24:7-8)
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