What's your focus?

"Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored." Romans 8:7-8

Whoa. What are you focused on? I must admit, this verse was kind of a slap in the face for me. If I am completely absorbed in myself and my life and what is going on with me, then I have ignored God. And he is not pleased by that. I definitely don't think I'm guilty of this all the time. Usually if I'm thinking about my own life, my very next thought is to take it to God in prayer... but not all the time. Sometimes I try to work things out on my own, sometimes I get so consumed in what is going on that I forget about God's power. The beautiful thing about this verse is that it tells us that God doesn't want us to worry about things, he wants us to give it to him, so that he might supply our every need. Whoo wee... I need to work on that. 

"But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can harly be thinking more of yourself than of him." Romans 8:9

If you think about yourself more than you think about Jesus, you might want to consider if you have been filled with his spirit, and maybe you have, but have you also allowed the flesh to bury the Spirit? It happens to the best of us sometimes, but I definitely don't want that to be the case in my life! So I'm going to work on it!