Where is your focus?- Devotion

First of all let me wish you all a very happy and hope filled New Year. 

 Let us focus for a minute on the word “hope”.   Maybe we should ask ourselves where do we base our hope?      As we ponder on that question.  Let us turn our focus on what the Word of God says …

Philippians 4:6-7  “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.   And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”  KJV

“Be careful for nothing” = don’t worry about anything, worry only leads to unrest,  headache and fear.   Worry gives your mind something to do, but it leads you to nothing, but heartache.

“Thanksgiving” = remembering all that God has done for us in the past, what He is doing in the present, and shall do in the future.

We should allow the Lord God, to work things out on our behalf.  Letting go of things we cannot control.   Giving over to the Lord all things that bother, worry, frustrate us on a daily basis.      Sometimes I get my mind on things of this world, all that is happening in the news… it can be so frustrating.    I have allowed my thoughts to get so bunched up.. that it does me no good.        Reading God’s Word should not be your New Year’s Resolution, it should be your focus every day.      My hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ, and what He accomplished on the Cross.