As the body of David Livingstone (1813-1873), great medical missionary to Africa, was being taken through the streets of London to its final resting place in Westminster Abbey, throngs of people lined the streets along the route.
One man was especially overcome with emotion. Asked by the person next to him if he knew the missionary, he said, “Yes, David and I were boyhood friends. Later we went to Africa together. David went for Africa’s souls, and I went for Africa’s gold. And today I realize I concentrated on the wrong world.”
This of course confronts us with the critical question: “Where’s our focus?”
If we need to readjust it, if we need to take care of some “business” with God, the apostle John presents this wonderful provision in I John 1:9: “If we confess our sins, He [God] is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” I John 1:9.