Focus on the details
For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. John 20:9
We have all probably had different thoughts about the details of the things Jesus went through leading up to His death. Some may have focused on the beating He took, others may have thought about the crowd jeering and mocking Him. Still, you may have thought about Jesus carrying His own cross to be nailed to. There may have been thoughts of His suffering as He hung on the cross. Probably some were reminded of the words He spoke on the cross, then the tomb and the three days He spent lying there lifeless. Most people only take time to think about the price Jesus paid during easter or communion time. Those are really the only times we stop from our busy schedule to purposely focus on all the details of what Jesus actually did to save us from an eternity of separation from God and without Him we would spend our eternal life suffering in hell.
However, after those times are over, what details do you fucus on the next day? Do you immediately shift your attention back to the world and the current crisis you are in? Will you scan the headlines to see what the greatest threat is for this week? Will you learn every detail and possible outcome to discuss in every conversation you will have about current events? Why does your focus have to change? Why do you have to turn your attention away from the price Jesus paid to free you from the current world circumstances? Why don’t you instead keep your attention on the details of heaven? Can we keep our focus on the details of our God and the details of our Savior, Jesus everyday we are alive?
Think about this: What if you spent as much time studying and getting to know your Heavenly Father as you spent watching the news or learning about current events this week? What if you focused on the details of heaven and the joy that is waiting for you there? Why not learn down to the last detail about the love of God? How He created us to have dominion over this world? How He sent Jesus to defeat His enemy and every evil work he ever did in this world or ever will do? Sin has been defeated! Death has been conquered! Sickness has been overcome! Disease has been vanquished! Anxiety, worry, doubt, fear, all triumphed over. He hung on a cross so we wouldn’t be crushed or even threatened by any attack of the enemy, right now, here in this world! The work Jesus did on the cross was so big, there is nothing that can stand against it. Nothing!!! It wasn’t just a partial work of Salvation for after we die, it was a complete work of redemption so we can live this life in total victory! Evil is not our focus, Victory is!
Today I want to encourage you to keep your focus on the details of your Savior, Jesus! You already have the victory! Please stop looking at the things that have already been defeated! They are not a threat to God or His people, but the only way to believe that is to focus on the God details, not the world details. We are more than conquerors through Jesus! Let’s start acting like it!
Today’s scripture reading: John 20:1-10
1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.
2 Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.”
3 Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb.
4 So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first.
5 And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he did not go in.
6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there,
7 and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself.
8 Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed.
9 For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.
10 Then the disciples went away again to their own homes.
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