Several years ago, I took a lesson in mountain biking and I learned REALLY quickly that where you focus is where you go. I watched this happen with 2 of my mtn biking classmates who had major crashes because their focus became gridlocked on a hairpin turn. When I came to the same hairpin turn, my instructor kept yelling at me to look past the curve. My brain started to argue, but I decided to obey my instructor & I turned my head to see where the trail was going after the curve – when I turned my head to look at the trail after the curve, my bike naturally followed my focus and I never crashed in the hairpin curve. This lesson about focus has helped me in all kinds of ways because it’s a continual reminder that I need to keep my eyes / focus on Jesus and not to get gridlocked on difficulties, impossibilities, etc – look past the curve. Further to this point, I’ve been thinking about a really great verse in Ps 25:15, “My eyes are continually on You and you will pluck my feet from the net.”
With this in mind, here are a few things that help me to keep my eyes / focus on Jesus:
- good praise & worship tunes,
- being thankful
- memorizing verses
- prayer
Do you have things that help you to keep your focus on Jesus? Please share! 🙂
Don’t dwell on the hang up, look at the solution. Blessings.
Yep, a couple things – similarly change your focus as the verse represents (God is looking down at us) to a heavenly or spiritual perspective. What is God trying to teach me from this event #1 and #2 using the Torah tradition of forcusing in on God at 9 Noon 3 etc (the watch times)to put our prayer life in line. Smiles
Oh yah, forgot the third thing – Start out each day with the “buddy system”. Text over a verse to a friend or recieve one so that you keep in check / accountability while listening to the Spirit for guidance. More Smiles
Doing my bible lessons on time; when i retired from nursing, last year, i signed up for 3 bible studies, and doing them consistently and on time has kept my focus on Jesus, and increased my love for Him.