Attention

Where do we place out attention each day? What are the things that consume our thoughts? What are the things that consume our time? What are the things that capture our attention and therefore rule out lives? We all worry about what we need to do to "get ahead" or "stay ahead." We place our attention on these things and get caught up in fitting into the culture of the world that says that we are good enough if......... So what is the "if" that we keep focusing our attention on? That "if" that we tell ourselves that when or if we could just get there or get that then we would really be able to change and life would be fulfilling? However, what we place our attention on will dictate how we live our lives and what change will happen for us.

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. Romans 12:1-2

We need to fix our attention on God in every single aspect of our lives. Every act that we perform each day - from our sleeping, to our eating, to our just walking around - is a spiritual act. We do not need to be so focused on what the world system has to offer us that we begin to measure ourselves by obtaining the "if" and place all of our attention there. We need to take the inward journey and find the maturity that come from attention on God and gives love, compassion, kindness, patience, and peace. When we place our attention on things outside of us and God to find change and happiness, we are pulled down to a level of immaturity that is filled with anger, frustration, worry, bitterness, and self-pity. Place your attention on God today and let God bring out the music that has been placed there by the Creator. Let the change happen from a connection to God and give no attention to the culture around you that says you are only good if....

Namaste'