Realign Your Focus to Stay on Course | Victoria Osteen
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What is the importance of focusing on God and our destiny?
Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you enjoyed today's message, why don't you be a blessing and share it with a friend? We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. We are believers in this place. We love you this morning. Amen. When I was a little girl, I loved to go to the beach with my family. We would get to the beach and I remember so well, we had this huge red umbrella that we drilled down in the sand. We'd put our beach blanket out, get our ice chest, get our spot ready for a day at the beach. And as soon as it was set, I'd take off to the water. I could spend hours out in the waves just having such a good time.
And one day I had been out there, seems like for several hours. In fact, I had made it to the second sandbar. Now, if you know what those sandbars are, they're deep spots and then you get on the sandbar and it's like you're on the shore. You can be way out and you can be just up to your knees. So I had made my way all the way out to the second sandbar. I wanted my family to see me from shore because I thought I am really done well today. So I stood up and I began to wave my hands looking for my family.
How can personal experiences shape our understanding of life's challenges?
I was searching everywhere for where our spot was, where we had set that red umbrella. when I realized I could see a lot of people, I could see a lot of things, but I couldn't spot my family. Well, I got kind of panicking as a little girl. I thought, I got to find my family. Where did they go? So I swam as quick as I could, worked really hard to make it to shore, looking for my family, I walked to the left all the way as far as I could, couldn't find them, turned around, walked to the right, looking and looking for my family. went at a distance, I spotted that red umbrella. And can I tell you, as a little girl, that was a happy moment for me. I thought, there they are, I'm safe and everything is okay.
You see, what I didn't realize was when I was out in that water, Those undercurrents were slowly taking me down the beach. It was so subtle. I was playing, minding my own business, but they just drug me all the way down the beach, about 200 to 300 maybe more feet down the beach. I didn't even realize what was happening to me. You know, in life, it can be much like that. There are undercurrents in life trying to drag us off, get us off course from where we are supposed to be. I hear these comments a lot. I was raised in church. My whole life I went to church. I don't know how I got so far away from God. Spoke to a woman the other day. She was telling me how happy her marriage was. until they begin to argue, until they begin to not be able to see eye to eye.
She said, we were so happy at first. She said, but now we've drifted apart. We've separated. Things just aren't the same. You see, those are the results of the undercurrents that are trying to destroy our life, to get us off course. And those are the things that we need to pay attention to because they can be so subtle. We don't even realize that they're happening. Undercurrents can be many different things. Can be hanging around with the wrong people, the wrong friends. Go in places and being with people that don't have the same values that you do. You know, this is what the Bible says about that. It says bad company corrupts good character. It actually says don't be misled. Don't be misled. Undercurrents can be bad attitudes.
can be selfishness, laziness, anger. See, these are the things that can separate families. These are the things that can cause us to lose good jobs, successful careers. You see, if I would have just paid attention, to where I was in relation to where that red umbrella was, I could have kept my position. See, the undercurrents were there and they were dragging me off because undercurrents will always have that tendency to drag us, but I could have made the necessary adjustments to get back in line. See, I could have positioned myself back to where I needed to be. I think about Samson in the Bible. Many of you know his story.
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