Why Single Focus?
If you were going to sum up your life into one single thought,
one single focus, what would it be? Are you known as “the nice guy”, “the computer
person”, “the nurse”, “the triathlete”, “the
religious gal”? What is your single main focus in life?
We recently started
a new bible study with four of our friends on the book of
Romans, one of the books in the New Testament of the Bible,
written by the Apostle Paul. The first lesson was an overview
of the book of Romans. At the end of the first lesson, we
were asked to summarize what we wanted out of the bible study
for our own lives. This entire study will take us about one
year, so this would be a fairly long term goal. Most of us
said that we wanted to have the type of “single
focus” like the apostle Paul.
Many years ago we read
a secular book about the people who had most influenced the
world.. It was by no means a religious book. The person ranked
Paul as the most influential person who was ever born. Muhammed,
the founder of Islam, was second. Jesus Christ was third.
The reason the author chose Paul as more influential in the
world than Jesus was because Paul took the message of Jesus
to the world. He brought it to Rome (thus, the book of Romans)
and eventually the emperor of Rome made Christianity (Catholicism)
the official religion of the Roman Empire. Kind of interesting,
eh?
The book of Romans starts out, “Paul, a servant
of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for
the gospel of God”… This is the way Paul introduces
himself in the letter. In the book of 1Corinthians he writes
in 2:2, “For I resolved to know nothing while I was
with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.”
What
does this tell us? Paul had a singular focus which was to
preach and teach about Jesus Christ and him being crucified
for forgiveness of people’s sins. Whether
or not you agree with the actual message Paul preached, we
all should admire his single focus. His focus changed the
world, to the point that he may have been the most influential
person to ever walk on the face of the planet.
How does a
person get a single focus? What is involved? How do you get
a single focus in life? In business? In your marriage? In
sport? Marion and I will be writing our thoughts on a regular
basis and we hope that they will not only help us in keeping
a single focus for ourselves, but that they will help inspire
you to be all that God intended for you as well.
Ross and
Marion
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