God desires younger men to choose to keep a singular focus upon Him in this horribly distracting world. One of the most vital choices any young man can ever make is to: Lock Your Mind Onto God It is amazing how something we really want can capture our attention. Some young men can’t stop thinking about that car they want, or that girl they saw, or that sport they love, or that activity they enjoy. Often their minds captured by the desires for something they want can make them zone out in school, at home, in church and everywhere. They are locked onto that desire. That intense, mind-riveting desire is the focus God says: Give to Me. God wants us to seek Him and find Him when we seek Him with ALL of our heart. During our last summer in Tulsa a friend gave us tickets to the PGA tournament, before Tiger Wood’s started his well publicized fall from his lofty reputation as an iconic golfer. What I most remember as we stood not ten feet from him on that 18th hole was not how drenched with sweat he was out in the blazing Sun, nor his impeccable outfit, precision golf clubs, or anything else except this: he was COMPLETELY focused on the ball. He looked at the shot he needed to take way to many times, from way too many angles. He crouched, he stepped back, he made himself examine the course the ball had to travel from almost every angle possible, and then stepped up confidently to take that final putt. But he did all that calculating as if he did not even see the thousands of us straining at the rope barriers, thousands more all glued to their perches in the grand stands, or even the millions of eyes that were on him via television cameras capturing his every move. Tiger Woods had an incredibly disciplined and practiced ability to FOCUS! That learned, chosen practice of intense, concentration of something that is worth ignoring everything else for is reverence. Tiger Woods had a “reverence” for his game, a complete focus that nothing else at that moment could distract him from. Golf was worth more than any momentary distraction. Have you ever focused upon God that way? That choice to ignore anything that could get me off course with God is exactly what the Lord wants from young men today. This word we are examining today means: Staying Focused on God in a World of Distractions https://youtube/watch?v=lIDvvu-NyZs&index=18&list=PLSP1IO9h3J7tn6NKbYkrQ7IiaR6H2ptrf
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:34:14 +0000
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