~ Focussing Your Target

... Or should that be Targeting your Focus?  For the last few weeks I have hardly strewn together more than half a dozen words at a time.  Granted I could have made a reasonable excuse for this.  There was the need to find a house to move to, then the need to unpack after the move, and Sue’s operation in the middle.

The truth is that up until this, it seems that this period was a bit of an unofficial sabbatical.  Today is the first time that my mind has started to formulate phrases so perhaps my sabbatical is coming to an end.

So what is the target and why the focus?  I started writing as a call from God and this was linked through Facebook and Blogger.  The complication is that Facebook has a relational entanglement which is very capable of distracting me from my primary calling.  Don’t get me wrong I see Facebook as a ministry partner to the writing, especially in the ways it permits us to encourage people who are going through hard times. 

The problem is when we get side tracked and lose sight of what we are supposed to be on about.  I am not entirely sure about how to avoid this apart from imposing some form of discipline in my time management.  I do recall hearing an interview given by a novelist some time ago where he spent two hours every morning just writing – something.  This does seem to have some merit; the problem is that my inspiration tends to happen at all hours even in the small hours of the morning.

There is a universal application to this quandary that started out as mine.  For each of us there is a calling on our lives, and we must find a way of maximizing our impact in that calling.  For each of us this will have unique facets simply because we are individuals.  That notwithstanding there is a commonality within our individual callings.  The CEO of a multinational company has a different set of references to the person who is charged with cleaning the executive suites of the company but both have the calling to act in a way that gets the job done, and in a manner that demonstrates their faith.

I choose not to try to tell the CEO his business and, for that matter, how he treats the cleaner who permits him to walk into a clean and fresh office every morning but both these people have the same function in their lives, which is to live so that Jesus our Master is honoured in the way we go about out work and lives.  This is true to all members of the Community of Faith regardless of our social position.  We need to be true to our Master and the things that He taught during His ministry years.

We each need to sort out what the Master would have us do, and how we are to do it.  But the Grace of God is such that He chooses to enable us to perform when we choose to accept His call on our lives.  Thanks be to God.