Where is YOUR focus??

So? Where is your focus these days???.... and WHY am I the guy no one comes to and says, "hey, where is YOUR focus buddy?" Okay... so sometimes people do and I don't listen... sue me, right??
I get off track in life a lot and I look for my strength and my peace in EVERYTHING except for the one who really provides. I look to my job, to my girl, to weight loss to find identity etc and the one place I forget to look is UP...
Why do we do that? I have to be really honest and transparent right now.. I haven't kept my focus. I hate it too because I lose everyone's respect around me. I want everyone else to admire me and fix my issues etc. and I have NO problem laying this out there for you guys because if you are reading this??? you probably need to read these words for YOUR life too. I'm not the only one who ever does this you know... scripture is full of guys and gals who's focus was centered upon other stuff. Most of God's people were liars, theives, braggarts, and losers. I mean really... look at some of these guys... they were street people who didn't have a clue about their own identity and tried everything else first too. King Uzziah had to die off this earth before Isaiah could fully see God in his glory, before that, King Uzziah was his idol. Noah was a drunkard who fell down naked as a jaybird. Abraham LIED and told the story twice of his wife being his sister so his life would be spared. My favorite of all those who were nothing was David. A man after God's own heart. This king not only committed adultry, he hid it and had the woman he made pregnant's husband killed in battle. This is God's GUY! and he lost his focus... so If he screwed up... maybe God will forgive when I do the same.
You know the funny part about this is when I read about David, I know we all remember Bethsheba and his sin etc, but I also remember the story about David when he and his men had been living with the Philistines and Achish sent him back to live among his people. He and his men had reached Ziklag and the Amalakites had attacked their camps and taken their possessions and their families and even their wives. Vs 4 of Samuel 30 says " David and his men burst out in loud wails—wept and wept until they were exhausted with weeping. David's two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken prisoner along with the rest. And suddenly David was in even worse trouble. There was talk among the men, bitter over the loss of their families, of stoning him.

6-7 David strengthened himself with trust in his God. He ordered Abiathar the priest, son of Ahimelech, "Bring me the Ephod so I can consult God." Abiathar brought it to David"


See? Even in the midst of his sin and a life of lies, David had a heart after God. He was always finding himself in a dark cave hiding from his enemy and calling on the name of God and asking for wisdom, direction, care, provision etc, and the funny part? God ALWAYS took care of him. ALWAYS....
I've been in that place of finding my strength in him again... its not an easy place because it's like learning to eat healthy again, and finding a taste for good foods, but when we do? we feel like we are on top of the world...
So? I'm in your face... poking you in the chest asking YOU... where is your focus?