Lacking Spiritual Focus

Lacking Spiritual Focus steals our inherited Joy

I am noticing around me that the lack of spiritual focus is causing many believers, unnecessary stress.
Not just the lack of focus but the lack of understanding of spiritual matters.
The condition of this world or the behavior of people, can stress out even the strongest believer.
Lacking focus on the Lord spiritually, can throw everything else off in our lives. Quoting scripture versus actually believing what we read and living it, makes us easy targets for the thief.
If we have the wrong perception of what is happening around us, it can cause is to have faulty thinking.
We can spend countless hours, rehashing out every dissatisfaction in life, family dynamics and the world in general.
When we do this, we cause ourselves to give up the one thing we unintentionally give up, our joy.
We just hand it right over to the thief. He doesn't have to steal it any more. Sad thing is, we know better but don't take heed to what we know, and jump head first into the trap we set for our own selves.
 Than there's times we are so caught up that we don't know we are doing it because we can't see it happen.
Yet, when we realize we aren't feeling it (joyful) any longer, it may be to late. Refocus on the right thing, on the things of the Lord.
Hold tight to your joy.