Faithful Focus

1 July 2007 – Faithful Focus

Isaiah 2:22

Don’t put your trust in mere humans.
They are as frail as breath.
What good are they?

Today I would like to discuss something about double F’s to you, the double Fs refer to ‘Faith’ and ‘Focus’. Why should I put these two Fs together? Or, why I put an ‘and’ between them? Can they exist independently? Are they mutually exclusive or greatly related?

These two Fs can exists separately, but it would not have the outcome of what you want to happen. If you only have focus, you may focus on something that doesn’t correct and even focus on the wrong target, without faith we cannot have a motivation to achieve it too; If we have only faith, without focus, our faith will have be in vain, we have faith because we trust on something, if we do not have a right focus, we would experience deceive and untrustworthy.

So, what I want to share with all of you today is to “Put your faith into the right focus”, everybody has faith, even a few-month-old baby has faith, if we trust on something, we will be able to use that something, for example, you are trusting the chair you now sit with, so you sit it! In the book of Isaiah, God said that we should not merely trust in humans. Why is that so? Then how can we make friends? Isn’t it ridiculous?

No, it is not that extreme that you thought it would be, as you know, human nowadays are untrustworthy, even if you disagree, it still continues. Betrayals often happen between two best friends, deceptions occur between two best colleagues. It is obvious that human is generally unfaithful, though we should still put in trust to human, but not merely human, because by doing such we will be faithful without focusing!

When we trust in humans, we should, at the same time, focus on God, it doesn’t mean that you should not pay attention on what your friends say and do. God knows what is the genuine, what is the fake, what is good, what is bad, what is trustworthy, what is deceitful.

Even human unfaithful, that disappointing us always; But God remains faithful, through the seasons and the times, even the heaven and earth pass away, His word will never fade away! It is because He is faithful for what He said!

Franco