Transitioning to Focus on the Important

As I was walking and talking with God this morning, while on vacation in New Port Richie Florida, I felt like God dropped into my mind the phrase – “transitioning to focus on the important.”

The implications are clear. Although what I have been doing to date has been good and maybe necessary, the important things of life have been handled sporadically but not regularly. We all seem to let life lead us instead of us leading life.

Daily necessities occupy most of our time and mental focus. If you have a job, you become consumed in the incidences of our daily grind. If your “job” is taking care of energy-filled children, you are consumed with the seemingly never-ending needs they have. Even if you may be retired, your life may be filled with recreation, your favorite television shows, or chores that take longer and demand more.

In short, the ordinary stuff of life becomes all-consuming. The inverse of that – the extraordinary things of life – are left basically without your focus, time or attention.

The result – an ordinary life.

In most cases, an extraordinary life does not happen on accident, or without focused effort, time and regular attention. However, the ordinary life does happen naturally. Live “naturally” and you can confidently expect an ordinary life.

But, by choice, determination, prayer and unrelenting effort, a person can begin to set a course to become an extraordinary person whose life “naturally” brings forth extraordinary evidence of God’s glory on display.

Maybe for some, this change happens with flip of a mental switch in their brain. But I think for most, it happens through a purposeful season of transition.This transition starts when God illuminates our life and shows us that there is more, and we are settling for less. As “dawn” breaks in our understanding of this reality, we come to the point of decision – go forward, requiring a change in focus and lifestyle, or continue on our natural normal path of the ordinary.