Refocus Your Faith By Anne Graham Lotz

Refocus Your Faith

By Anne Graham Lotz

As the first month of 2019 comes to an end, where is your focus? Are you looking back and focusing on all the problems and pressures that occurred in the past? Or are you looking ahead and focusing on all the possibilities that await you this year? The church at the end of the first century was surely tempted to get out of focus. The early believers did not think they had a future. The Roman Emperor Domitian declared himself god, demanded to be worshipped and poured out horrific persecution on Christians who refused to do so. In that setting, God gave the Apostle John a vision of the glory of Jesus Christ that he recorded in the Book of Revelation (1:9–17) … a vision that has given hope to Christians throughout the centuries as it has refocused them on Jesus. What type of pressure are you under? Is it emotional? Physical? Financial? God has given us a clean slate in this brand-new year—12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days. Would you choose today to lift up your eyes and refocus under pressure? Refocus with patience, with preoccupation, until you are prostrate. Simply refocus on the vision of His glory. Read your Bible, every day. Listen for His voice and look for His face through its pages. Especially if … like me … you are on Patmos.