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Good Morning,
One of the points Mid-Winter Retreat speaker, David Mullins, made with the pastors had to do with the term ‘refocus’. When we are on retreat, it is good to spend some time and energy refocusing on who God is, and His love for us.
David challenged the pastors, though, to not only refocus on who God is, but who we are in Christ. When Jesus looks at you, what does He see?
If you are like me, you might focus on all the things that are not pretty. The failures, the mistakes, the words said in anger or frustration. These are things we may default to when we look at ourselves. But, the exercise is not to look at ourselves, instead, it is an attempt to look through the eyes of Christ to see ourselves.
When Jesus speaks with the woman at the well in John, chapter 4, we get a glimpse into what this woman’s life must have been like as she comes to the well in the middle of the day. When Jesus says to go and get her husband, we find out she has had five husbands and the man she’s with now is not her husband. We also see, when the woman perhaps attempts to change the focus of the conversation and starts talking theology, Jesus pulls the conver-sation back to Himself. He essentially says this, ‘Yes, I know you want to overshadow our conversation and make it about all kinds of things, but what it is really about is me. I can give you what you need. I can help you to refocus and see in yourself what I see.’
And, what did Jesus see in this woman? Well, from what happens next in the story, perhaps
Jesus saw someone who would bring the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a whole town.
As you spend some time today ‘refocusing’, ask yourself, who am I, in Christ, today? Who knows what kind of impact this process can have!
-Pat Byers
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