It's ALL In Your Focus!

 Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else.

Galatians 6:4 

 

I was driving home from a meeting last week and I noticed the driver next to me kept sending text messages on their phone. Yet I was so distracted by this other driver than I'm the one who ran over the "drum drum" grooves at the edge of the pavement.  It startled me, but also reminded me that MY job, as a driver, is to pay attention to what I am doing, where I am going, and to be safe.  I was distracted because I was more intent on the other person.

 

We do that a lot, don't we?  We focus on other people instead of our own lives.  We focus on what other people are doing, instead of focusing on doing what's right.  Some even focus on criticizing others instead of encouraging them.  I had a boss once who said, "If you have so much time to focus on what someone else is doing, then YOU don't have enough to do!" 

 

Look at what Paul is saying here.  Pay careful attention to YOU OWN WORK. Why? so you will get the satisfaction of a job well done!  And why should we even think of trying to compare ourselves to others?  We aren't them and they aren't us!

 

Let's be about the work God has given US!