What does Focus mean?

Noun:

- The center of interest or activity, attraction, or attention
- The state or quality of having or producing clear visual definition
- A point of concentration, directed attention, emphasis, a direction
- A state or condition permitting clear perception or understanding
- An adjustment for distinct vision
- The area that may be seen distinctly or resolved into a clear image
- Reflection by a mirror or refraction by a lens or optical system

Verb:

- To cause to be concentrated
- To adjust the focus of (the eye, a lens, etc.)
- To bring into focus
- To bring (something, such as light rays) to a focus, concentrate

Perception:

the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.
It is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.

Perspective:

a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view:
a way of regarding situations, facts, etc., and judging their relative importance
the proper or accurate point of view or the ability to see it

Gossip - The Lens of Other’s Opinions

Proverbs 16:27-29(NKJV)

27 An ungodly man digs up evil, And it is on his lips like a burning fire. 28 A perverse man sows strife,
And a whisperer separates the best of friends. 29 A violent man entices his neighbor, And leads him in a way that is not good.

1 Timothy 5:13(NKJV)

13 And besides they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

Romans 1:28-30(NKJV)

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

The Lens of Unforgiveness and Bitterness

Acts 8:23(NKJV)

23 For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”

Ephesians 4:30-32(NKJV)

30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Hebrews 12:14-15(NKJV)

14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

The Lens of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-3(NKJV)

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8(NKJV)

4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails.

1 Corinthians 13:13(NKJV)

13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

The Lens of the Cross

Romans 3:23(NKJV)

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

1 John 1:9(NKJV)

9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

John 3:16-17(NKJV)

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.