Focus!

I was preparing for a message yesterday for the football team at Pedro. Yes, it has been one of those weeks where I am actually still preparing the day of which is usually a major no-no for me. I had the message together but I was looking for some type of a crowd breaker type of illustration. This story borders on which blog it should truly appear in, but it's funny to me for sure.
I was going to talk about ants, and how much as football players and especially as Christians we should be more like ants. Ants work tirelessly to build their little hills, colonies and homes. They work all together in a way that is extremely envious to me. They spend the majority of their lives just building their colonies. THeir life expectancy is actually some where around 50-60 days. No wonder they are so mad when their little colonies get stepped on. They can lift up to 20 times their own weight yet they work all together, you never see a few working while the others sit around, they are completely focused all on one thing, building and storing food.
Focus is important, but what should we focus on, what do we put into our heads to stay focused?
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Paul says focus on what is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent or praiseworthy! What is there in this world that can cover all those words? Only Jesus and the Gospel are capable of being all of those things. The world shows us a lot of things that are focus oriented, and many things that exemplify some of those things, but if we focus on God, His Son and the Bible we cover all of the above completely. So focus on the word, meditate on it daily and see that your focus is where it needs to be.
That was to be the meat of my message for the team yesterday, to show them the importance of focus. Then, I went to pacetti Bay and did some presentations opposite of Liberty. Liberty is the new drug dog that the St. Johns Sherriffe's office uses. Liberty was so focused on the job at hand. If Liberty has her ball taken away she immediately starts to (on command) sniff out drugs in the room. Well, she did her first presentations for the kids and in between the first and second one I talked to the officer for a while. Liberty came over and sniffed me and sat looking into my eyes as if to accuse me of concealing some form of drugs. I didn't think much about it and then like a flash of 160 degree heat, or a revelation it dawned on me. In my watch pocket of my jeans I carry a hydrocodeine just encase my kidney stones start bothering me, especially when I have public speaking appearances. I walked outside after the second presentation because she continually stared at me while I was talking. Focus, Liberty is trained to do one job and she does it without any hesitation, not caring who or what you are. That's the kind of focus we as believers need, we need to work like ants and focus like Liberty on reaching the lost with the never failing message of JEsus Christ and the Gospel!
Thanks for reading and have a great day!