I Try to Skip Self-Focus

Daily writing promptWhat part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can?View all responses

Self-focus makes me sad and unhappy. Skipping self-focus makes me skip with joy! Even so, I often feel compelled from within to make self-focus my routine. Instead, I make it my priority to always try to skip self-focus and to put my attention on the resurrected Jesus Christ instead of on me.

If we Christians want to get well (John 5:6) as individuals and churches, we need to let the risen Jesus take over and personally lead and direct us from within by His Spirit (Romans 8:14) as the living Head of His body. (Colossians 1:18) We all need to begin to listen to Jesus and do what He tells us to do, both in our day to day lives and in church services. (John 5:8)

Christ ignored
Is Christ denied.
(2 Timothy 3:5)
Let Jesus be
Your constant guide.
(Romans 8:14)

An Acrostic About
Institutional Churches:

Christ’s
Headship
Usurped and
Replaced by a
Counterfeit
Head.

The risen Jesus is the only legitimate Head of a church.
(Colossians 1:18) Let the living Jesus personally take over, direct, and lead every church service worldwide!

Don’t just go to church and passively sit through a service. Make church a gathering where everybody present is encouraged to “do business with God” by listening to and obeying the inner voice the Holy Spirit throughout the meeting. Let everybody in church have the freedom use their “response-ability” — their ability to listen to and immediately obey God the Spirit.

When Christ’s love
Is allowed
To freely flow
It will grow.
When it’s not
No amount of
Church attendance
Can make you know
What His love
Is truly like.

Do Christians quench God’s Spirit?
Where love isn’t freely flowing . . .
God’s Spirit is quenched.
Where peace isn’t present . . .
God’s Spirit is quenched.
Where people are impatient . . .
God’s Spirit is quenched.
Where there is unkindness . . .
God’s Spirit is quenched.
Where goodness is held back . . .
God’s Spirit is quenched.
Where people are unfaithful . . .
God’s Spirit is quenched.
Where there is little gentleness . . .
God’s Spirit is quenched.
(1 Thessalonians 5:19 & Galatians 5:22-23)

When Christians are tasteless salt and buried light, they rely on physical power and politics instead of on God the Holy Spirit. (Mt 5:13-16) Reading Matthew 5 deeply touches my heart with how blessed I am. I am blessed with poverty of spirit, tears, humbling experiences, hunger and thirst to do what is right, compassion for others, burning desire for a pure heart, yearning to be a peacemaker, and some insults and persecution. According to Jesus I’m super blessed!!