Focus

Focus: a point at which rays of light, heat, or other radiation, meet after being reflected.
I know this is not the focus most of you think upon when you think of that word, but if you read this definition carefully, it says something. Focus is something I need to get a handle on in my life. Focus happens after I am reflective over a situation or time. Everything finally comes together, all the pieces of the puzzle, and after thinking upon it, focusing comes to mind.
I need to focus.
I need to focus right now. I need to focus on Christ. Not just on Christ, but Christ alone. I need to WANT it.
Why is it so hard? Why can't it be easy to want the right thing? Why do I always want the wrong thing? The only way this is going to work, this whole issue of focusing my life, is if I want it.
Do I need it? Yes. Do I want it?
I need to want it. Help me want it. The situations I put myself in are just asking for it. I can't stand up under it. I need to stand against it.

"No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it." -1 Cor. 10:13

I need to find the way out that he always provides. I need to want the way out. I need to focus on the way out. I get too distracted, too wrapped up in the moment. I need to put all of my focus in Christ. But Christ ALONE. My trust, my hope, my love. I need to stop looking for situations, for people, for distractions.
Lord, give me strength to focus. To focus on the light. To focus on you. And you alone.