So what are you lookin' at?

Written by Bro. C. Emerson Strain

I enjoy mountain biking for exercise. Our home is situated in a valley, so I have mountains on either side to ride up. I made an interesting discovery while riding on a winding trail going up the mountain.

If you see a sharp rock in the trail and look at it, try as you will, you will run over it. Now this doesn't sound like a great revelation, nor does is sound like Einstein's 7th rule of relativity, but it's true anyway. The amazing thing is, if you focus your eyes to look at the smooth trail beside the rock, you will miss the rock. It's a balance thing.

So what are you lookin' at? Do all you see in life are bumps and problems? Do you look and see that you are going to loose your job? Do you see yourself as a failure? Do you see your family splitting up? What are you lookin' at?

Col 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

If you keep looking at your fears and problems, you will hit them right dead center. What about your time? What do you do with it? If you watch TV, do you watch soap operas? Do you watch R rated stuff? Do you watch men drive cars in circles? Do you watch people work out while you sit there and get out of shape?

Do you watch TV shows that show you how to "kick it up a notch" while you have to let your belt buckle out another notch"?

What about the telephone? Do you use it to be a gossip?

What about the internet? Do you search out worthless stuff?

What about the radio? Do you listen to every radio personality that wants to increase his coverage?

What about Church? Do you bounce from Church to Church and don't submit yourself to your pastor's teaching and care?

Every time you show up at Church, are they singing Christmas Carols?

What are you lookin' at? What ever you are looking at, that is the direction that you are going!

Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Now I'm not giving you a pie in the sky outlook on live. But you will miss some sharp rocks that you would normaly run right over.

Phil 3:13 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,
Phil 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Let's go home.