Day 22 – Know Who You Are

How can we focus more on Christ?

Know your Design. This is my favorite topic!

Each one of us is a uniquely designed creation by God himself put on this Earth as a gift. God is our perfect Father. We are His children. He loves us more than any human can love one another.

This is my favorite topic because there were so many years of my life wondering who I was. I knew I was a child of God, but I didn’t take the time to understand what that meant. I listened to what the world said I should be instead of listening to who God created me to be. I thought the things I could accomplish made me who I was or acceptance from others was what made me. I thought maybe there was something wrong if I didn’t think the same, dress the same, or want the same things as others.

I spent my 20’s and 30’s trying to fit the mold that the world tells us to be. I failed to spend time in the Word and hear exactly what my Father, my Creator says about me.

Here’s the thing. You and me were created on purpose for a purpose. Our strengths and weaknesses are part of His design. Those weaknesses we don’t like where given to us so that we would need God. God wants us to love His creation and give Him credit and glory for creating such a beautiful thing.

So how can we focus more on Christ? Stop obsessing about parts of our body that the world calls “flawed.” Stop trying to change the parts of us that are beautiful in God’s eyes. Stop trying to be somebody else. What God created is good! We are good!

Let’s thank Him for giving us life!

Day 21 - Recap

How can we focus more on Christ?

Day 1 – Pray

Day 2 – Read the Bible

Day 3 – Christian Friends

Day 4 – Move

Day 5 – Have Faith

Day 6 – Thank Him

Day 7 – Let Go & Let God

Day 8 – Recap

Day 9 – Church

Day 10 – Positive Words

Day 11 – Gifts

Day 12 – Forgiveness

Day 13 – Fasting

Day 14 – Worship

Day 15 – Recap

Day 16 – Serve One Another

Day 17 – Listen & Be Obedient

Day 18 – Eliminate Distractions

Day 19 – Call a Friend & Ask How You Can Pray for Them Today

Day 20 – Schedule Time with Jesus

Day 21 – Recap

Day 20 – Schedule Time with Jesus

How can we focus more on Christ?

Schedule time with Jesus and don’t move Him to the next day.

I love my planner. I am old school and like to write instead of use my phone. I use the “Planner Pad” to keep up with all the things going on with work, kids, and life. After I complete a task on the list, I put a big check mark on that item and feel accomplished. The things that don’t get done, get a strikethrough and moved to another day in the week.

There are some days that have more strikethroughs than check marks. Today is probably one of those days! I was doing some thinking this afternoon about those things that get moved to another day, the strikethroughs. Life is going to cause the list to shift, but it’s really important to not strikethrough Jesus time. That time is the foundation to life. Jesus time will make all the other things on the list bearable and a little less stressful. Jesus time gives us the strength to get through the day.

Let’s make Jesus time a priority this week with no strikethroughs.

If we typically spend 5 minutes a day praying, let’s bump that up to 7 minutes.

If we read a devotion each day, let’s open our Bibles and read one page.

Let’s pause during the workday and say a little extra prayer.

Let’s make time to go to church this week.

Let’s keep that focus going this month! Jesus, help us keep our eyes on you!