Focus

The world is focused on President Donald Trump. Many support him. Many do not. But please do not lose focus of what is important.

“Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God” (Psalm 146:1-5)

1) Praise God from your very soul. This is not a head issue, it is a heart issue. This isn’t a natural issue, but rather supernatural. “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” (John 4:24)

2) While I live or “have any being” I will praise the Lord. No matter what condition I am in, happy, sad, sick, rich, poor, in this body or in the spirit-If I have any being, any presence, any existence then I will praise the Lord.

3) We tend to look only to an earthly prince and not on past to our heavenly Father and King for help. This short sightedness causes us to stumble, fall and fail. The Psalmist is crystal clear. In the prince or the son of man there, “is no help!”

“How many have turned away heartsick from men on whom they once relied! Never was this the case with a believer in the Lord. He is a very present help in time of trouble.” (Charles Spurgeon)

“Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.” (Psalm 100:3)

4) God first breathed breathe into man, formed of dirt and gave him life (Genesis 2:7) and there man shall return.

“As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.” (Psalm 103:15-16)

“Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.” (Psalm 90:3)

5) “Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help…” The word “Happy” means nothing other than blessed. We are blessed and happy when we put our trust in God. Man is temporal and temporary. God is from everlasting to everlasting. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Why put confidence in man?

“It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.” (Psalm 118:8-9)

A king, the wisest man on earth and the richest man on earth had the following to say about God: “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.” (Proverbs 3:5-8)

Let us all heed the advice of King Solomon. Let’s refocus our attention and efforts away from Trump and ourselves and unto God.

Bill Hitchcock