Focus

I often write things on my bathroom mirror. Currently it says “Where is your FOCUS today?” I have been meditating on that idea and where it leads me. So I ask you, where is YOUR focus today?

In reading this morning I finished Romans and still felt like my focus was elsewhere. I went back to Ps. 57 to remind me to have a steadfast heart (see prev. post), and still felt like I needed to continue reading. I wound up at the end of Proverbs, a chapter I have read so many times; A Wife of Noble Character. This time it was different. It wasn't a desire to be married and be this wife of noble character, more so to be a noble wife of Christ. I am His bride, you know :). In my bible I found where I had written my own paraphrase from 2007:

Strive to be a virtuous woman. A woman of noble character, of a value not able to be priced. Don't base your life on your charm and beauty, but in its place fear the Lord and His light will be your reward.

Thats it, thats my focus today. I desire so deeply to have His light be my reward! I cannot find it by charming people, but by loving on my Maker and knowing who I am in Him. Knowing that “honor comes through humility and the fear of the Lord” (NIV commentary). It is exciting to me to know that I am His. It is exciting to know that He has made me His daughter, to hold my head high with the knowledge of Christ and know that it brings Him glory.

I Peter 3.3-4 says

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight.

The unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit! It amazes me how 'loud' we can be at times! I think that is why we (I) have such a hard time with things sometimes, I am just to loud.