Focus: "Why Dream?"

 What a shame that many one-hit-wonder bands go the rest of their careers without more exposure. The Dutch jazz-rock band Focus is one of those. My guess is that the public thought of them as a novelty band with a weird song called "Hocus Pocus."

Listen to this excellent non hit album cut here:

That's a good question. Why dream about the future? Even Christ warned of trouble to come. Matthew 24:7 and 8 (Bible in Basic English) says, "For nation will be moved against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and men will be without food, and the earth will be shaking in different places; But all these things are the first of the troubles."

Furthermore, our scientists tell us we're just another species of animal. Like Ecclesiastes 3:19 (BBE) reads, "Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose."

Furthermore, we chase after money but it never satisfies. Ecclesiastes 4:8 (BBE) informs us, "It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work."

Fortunately for us, we have a saviour who's Christ. As Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 2:14 (BBE), we aren't abandoned, "But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him."

We have much to look forward to as well. This post would be too long if I wrote all the good things we have already in Christ and the wonders of the new heaven and new earth.

If our Master hasn't returned by Monday, I hope to post about the harm parental fights cause to children.