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92. What's your golden speck?


I took a walk with Nash man and Mad Max the other day. It was a beautiful evening, the sun was shining, and we were enjoying our little stroll around the town. As we were walking, I glanced down at him sitting there in his stroller and noticed his back. I noticed something odd up toward his collar that I had never noticed before. The material of his shirt was mostly gold with a few navy blue stripes. Where his shirt met his collar in the back, there was a blue stripe. Yet on the left side, the material must have been a little off and there is a tiny spot of gold all by its lonesome right up there by his collar.  This little dot, that I had never noticed before, started to drive me crazy. It wasn't perfection, it was bugging me. Over the next 5 minutes of our walk I must have looked at that golden speck a hundred times. It was all I could focus on and it was beginning to steal my joy. I spent a block or more focused on that speck, ignoring the giggles, the smiles, and the panting of Mr. Max. Yet, prior to me noticing it, Nash had worn this shirt a hundred times and it had never once crossed my mind. I never noticed it. As I continued walking the Lord put it on my heart that so many times we focus on that tiny speck of imperfection and let it ruin our opinion of the whole.

Does that speck change the fact that this shirt keeps my son warm? No. Does this speck change the fact that this shirt is perfectly fine at doing it's job? No. Does that speck mean that this shirt is of any less use than any other shirt in his closet? No. Yet, when I wash it and hang it up in his closet, I will think of the speck. When I go to get him dressed from now on, I will think of that speck and maybe pass on a perfectly fine shirt because of one tiny imperfection.

What is your speck? What are you focusing on that shouldn't even be noticed? What do you notice that shouldn't even matter? Is it that your car isn't the newest model, that your house isn't in the best neighborhood? Is it that your job doesn't pay as much as your neighbor? Is it your lawn, your clothes, your shoes, your children's clothes? Is it your past? Are you letting your past history and mistakes be the golden speck you focus on that keeps you from enjoying your journey? Is it the news? Are you so focused on the events that are happening outside that you are forgetting to focus on what matters to you on the inside? Is it what someone has said to you or about you? Have you ever been happy and excited about something and then someone said something to you that made you focus on the one negative thing that changes your perspective on a positive situation that had you beaming with joy moments earlier? Don’t focus on the tiny imperfections. The Lord overlooks your imperfections every day. Share that love.

Don't lose your focus and don't let focusing on the wrong thing blur your vision for your future. The specks don't matter in the grander scheme of things. I promise.

Romans 12:2 - And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Colossians 3:2 - Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Philippians 4:8 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.


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