Focus, Focus, Focus
Focus, Focus, Focus Hosea 11:1-11 ; Luke 12:13-21 Colesville Presbyterian Church, Silver Spring, MD July 31, 2022 Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ang-VgqERI (Sermon starts at 30:17) S cripture often confronts us with the reality that God’s people have grown tired of God’s love. It’s like the air we breathe; we just do it. Losing the focus of being in God’s love, we wander off to seek other reasons for our being. We search for our focus in a host of distractions, forgetting that our whole being desires, hungers and thirsts after God. That’s what we were created for – “nothing else can satisfy our restless hearts, until they come to rest in God,” in the words of early 5th century North African theologian Augustine. Hebrew prophet Hosea, whose words were read earlier, had been instructed by God to marry a sex worker, a lover who had no abiding love, but loved whoever was at hand to meet their mutual current desires and needs. Hosea contrasts the rent-a-sex-partner life-styl