What do we mean “focus” on our Master and Tending?

DeVern Fromke wrote in Sharpen Your Focus, “WHAT DO WE MEAN BY FOCUS? Let me explain with this quote from Charles Cowman:

The human eye is so constituted that a sailor standing night-lookout watch at sea, can see a dim object more clearly by focusing on a point a little to one side of this, than by staring directly at it. In a similar manner, your spiritual vision is designed so that you can see God’s will for you, not by concentrating on it, but by looking at Him.

This can be an important correction for those who become focused on knowing God’s will. We should never let seeking God’s will become a substitute for God Himself. When we are rightly occupied with our Father/God, we shall find that knowing His will falls into its rightful place. Walking ‘in His light, we shall see light.’”

DeVern Fromke wrote as his life-focus, “My availability, my adjustability, and my accountability will be my constant focus—a life seeking to be well-pleasing to Him.”

Examples of God blessing and tending us include:

• God’s protection around Gloria
• His comfort for Whites, Ports and Elwynne having released loved ones into God’s eternal presence.
• And insurance recently paid for needed repairs and improvements in our roof.

Meditate in God’s Word and Listen for His Voice
In Genesis 2:15 the Hebrew word shamar is translated to tend, protect, keep watch, guard. The Hebrew word abad means to serve as in dress or nurture.

God tends and nurtures us.

We are made in His image so as we focus on Him we will be blessed and be a blessing (Hebrew word barak).

Ask Him to make you aware of a gift or blessing in your life and give him thanks. (Barak also means to adore, and abad also means to worship).

Ask Him to make you aware of how He can bless another through you:

Also ask God to reveal anything hindering your focus and love for God: Deut 6:13 only worship and serve God the Lord.

Jesus answered Satan and his temptation in the wilderness by quoting Exodus 23:24 You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their sacred pillars in pieces.

The prophet Haggai called the people to not just tend their own house but to come together and focus on God. Then they would know he was with them and they would be blessed.

2011 A Year of Tending: Focus, Faithfulness and Fruit
Our theme verse echoes this focus on God:
Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit;
so he who patiently
and faithfully guards and heeds his master
shall be honored.
~Pro 27:18