Proverbs 11: 27
If you search for good, you will find favor; but if you search for evil, it will find you!
This describes our focus: if we just look at what we want to criticize, to find fault, then our life will be full of misery; but if our focus is on whatever is right, lovely, or deserving of praise, then our life will be cheerful, we will know the Joy of the Lord.
One way to see where our focus is, is to pay attention to our words. If we tend to compliment or criticize, that will show us where we're looking, and determine what kind of emotional life we are living.
Whatever I choose to focus on becomes larger, clearer, and more real in my life; and what I'm not focused on, the rest of what is going on around me, fades away into the background. So I choose to focus my thoughts and attention on whatever is good, lovely, positive, and right, so that what is troublesome or problematic or negative will fade into obscurity in my life.
I will fix my thoughts on what is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, and worthy of praise.
How about you?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
