Life is so fast fleeting away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t keep putting away what must be done today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The spirituality you so desire is available today,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If only you will concentrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The books you need to read to nurture your soul,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can be done today,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If only you will concentrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That inner peace you long for is at your arms reach,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If only you will concentrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The greatest wickedness of our generation is distraction,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So you end up doing what is not your priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s the craftiness of hell for our season:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s to keep men busy and pursuing those things that lead into the swamps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then we\u2019ll one day awake in eternity wondering why we lived in shallowness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And why we failed to achieve God\u2019s divine purposes for our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Concentrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Outline His priorities for your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Live in inward quietness for this is needful for clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Live in inward quietness and find the tranquility to see ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It takes inner concentration to embrace God\u2019s mind,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And pursue God\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Multiple scattering activities is the cancer of our days,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A cancer that keeps spreading its poisons into our very soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Watch the inwardly focused man,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the delights of God are His portion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Watch the inwardly focused man and he makes great strides in God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Watch the inwardly focused man and He is no ordinary man,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For even in the things of the earth,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is never rushed by seeming emergencies,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Knowing that the sovereignty of God super-intends over all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He pursues excellence and sharpness and productivity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And is not given to mediocrity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because he has known how to keep his eyes on the priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t run up and down with the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world is vain and all the world systems are vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Engage the world because its needful to be productive here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Engage the world because it\u2019s needful to serve humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But don\u2019t engage the world in a frenzy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t allow the engagement with the world consume your focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t let the world determine your daily priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s why it\u2019s critical for the spiritual man to learn the discipline of focus;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inward focus and concentration,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For only thereby will he experience and enjoy alignment with God,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daily exercising the disciplines of focus on the needful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus is our supreme example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He never lived a rushed life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He had an understanding of what was needful for each moment,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And even if He was misunderstood by many,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It did not change His lifestyle or daily habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He refused to be dictated to by the urgent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He lived only in the guidance of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a carpenter, am sure He did what all carpenters did;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet I am persuaded that even at that,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He always lived in the inner quietness of the divine,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For being a carpenter was not His identity but His humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As humans, there are duties we must undertake,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But we must not let those duties become our reasons for living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Develop inner concentration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nurture quietness in your spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guard your soul against the cancer of scatteredness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For it is only in the practice of these subtle virtues,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can your life and the divine life merge into one holy being,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the purposes of God begin to unfold and manifest before men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Concentrate on God and His mind,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And your life will have the meaning, purpose and direction that counts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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