Sharpen Your Focus!
"Immediately there fell from [Saul’s] eyes something
like scales, and he received his sight at once; and
he arose and was baptized."
Acts 9: 18
A funnel has a wide end and a narrow end. The two ends
can represent how different people find their life’s purpose.
Some enter early in life at the narrow end, knowing exactly
what they want to be or do. Others enter at the wide end and
narrow their focus and activity over time. People are different
and progress through life in various ways.
The apostle Paul took a mixed path. He was a tentmaker by
trade (Acts 18:3), but that trade was only to support his true
passion: understanding and teaching the laws of God.
He was on a literal road, the road from Jerusalem to Damascus,
in pursuit of that passion when God changed his focus, and thus
his life. Instead of him living as a teacher of the law, he became
a preacher of grace. And it was not an easy
transition (Acts 9:1),
taking years to realize (Galatians 2:1).
Don’t despair about your life’s focus or purpose.
Walk faithfully in the light God has given you today,
trusting more light will be revealed as it is needed.
"Man, made in the image of God, has a
purpose—to be in relationship to God,
who is there."
Francis Schaeffe
