Don't Lose Focus

By Joe Keim

July 1, 2025

The Lord has been speaking to my heart. He said: “Joe, you and all others who have been born of the Spirit are in a race that began 6,000 years ago in the Garden of Eden. Your goal is to pass the message of faith on to the next gen-eration. Do not get distracted by the world and all of its temporary posses-sions, nor by the runners next to you. Keep your eyes on the goal!”

As I thought about this important task, I couldn't help but remember the ones before me - Abel, Noah, Moses, Ruth, Joseph, the apostle Paul, Lydia, and so many others who passed the message of faith on until it got to you and me. Some of our forefathers hid in dun-geons, were beheaded, sawn in two, drowned, and burned at the stake. They refused to drop out of the race. Their goal was to pass the message on so it would get to you...to me.

This challenges me to do the same and causes me to challenge you. We must not lose focus. We cannot give up. The apostle Paul wrote:

“...let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with pa-tience the race that is set before us” (Heb 12:1).

May we all be able to say, with Paul, at the end of our race:

“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith” (2 Tim 4:7).

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