Ya gotta focus, man!

Back from a long break...the fact that the long break exists reminds me of something I discovered a few weeks back.

There's no big story to this, nothing big that happened or any such thing. It's just that I've noticed over the last few months that to live for the Lord, you have to be focused.

Back in college, I had no focus at all. Subconsciously, I figured that I could just coast along in life, and as long as I missed the big bumps in the road, I'd be fine. That's okay, I guess, but that's not how it should be, by a long shot.

Thanks be to the Lord that during college, I had at least that little bit of focus to stay out of the bad spots, because it was there on a pretty regular basis. Even as recently as my Tunica, Mississippi, trip in August of 2006 I was close to some pretty bad stuff when I was staying in a casino for four days. Thankfully for me, the Lord was with me all of those times (and He still is!), and when those tempting times came in Tunica, I simply went to sleep, knowing that I absolutely had to get up on time the next morning.

In an effort to keep my focus up, I'm going to start a project on 1/1/08. I'm going to Read the Bible in 90 days. Click here for more. In all my years, I've never read through the Bible, but I'm going to. Now, I'm not using the version those folks use...namely, you can get a bookmark to print out that will tell you what scriptures to read each day, and that's what I plan to use. I won't get into issues regarding what version of the Bible is better here. I use the King James Version, I have since the beginning and I see no need to change now.

That said, as I pass particularly interesting points in the Scriptures, I'll post here on those things and elaborate a bit. I know, it's all interesting, but I'm referring to things that demand my making a comment on it, essentially.

Anyone who wants to join me, let me know!