DON’T LOSE YOUR FOCUS

 

DON’T LOSE YOUR FOCUS

 

Prov 4:25-27

25 Let your eyes look right on [with fixed purpose], and let your gaze be straight before you.

26 Consider well the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established and ordered aright.

27 Turn not aside to the right hand or to the left; remove your foot from evil.

AMP

 

          In teaching his son, Solomon presented and reinforced the principal of focus. Investigators must be careful to not chase false leads that tear them away from the evidence. Racehorses sometimes are fitted with blinders to reduce their peripheral vision and to keep them focused on their task of winning the race.

 

          The woman at the well (John 4:20-21) tried to distract Jesus from His pursuit of her soul by inserting a well-worn argument that had no solution. In Genesis, Satan enticed Eve by pointing out the supposed benefits of the forbidden fruit while ignoring the most important feature. If she ate it, she would die.

 

          I remember the battery-operated Hasbro game of “Operation.” The player was to remove various bones and such from the patient without triggering the electrified opening. If he did not focus, he would kill the patient. Some things in the Christian’s life are similar in nature. Don’t lose your focus.

 

Phil 3:13-14

13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

 

 

Lord, guide those who have serious and delicate issues confronting them. AMEN