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Fix Your Eyes July 25, 2010
Over and over again, my driver’s education instructor said these two words: “Drive ahead.” This was his way of telling me to focus on the horizon, not just on my immediate surroundings. Drivers who continually look to the right or to the left may well go into the ditch.
Satan is good at causing “roadside distractions” that tempt us to look at him rather than at Jesus. If he can get our attention, he may be able to get us off track and delay our spiritual progress. He even tried this with Jesus Himself!
After Jesus was baptized, Satan tried to deter Him by suggesting “better” ways to accomplish His work. Satan told Jesus that He could prove He was the Son of God by throwing Himself from the temple (Luke 4:9-11). But Jesus knew that proving He was God’s Son would come by submitting Himself to the cross, not by flinging Himself from a high building. He responded, “You shall not tempt the Lord your God” (v.12). Jesus had His eyes on our redemption, and He knew He couldn’t accomplish it by taking a detour around the cross.
The way to stay out of spiritual ditches is to fix our eyes on Jesus (Heb. 12:2) and refuse to even glance at Satan’s distractions.
The only way to overcome
Temptations that we face,
Is to be focused on the Lord,
Who strengthens by His grace. —Sper
Satan ought not be in our line of vision, but behind us. —Leonard Sweet
Read: Luke 4:1-13
Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.
—Hebrews 12:1-2"The way to stay out of spiritual ditches is to fix our eyes on Jesus (Heb. 12:2) and refuse to even glance at Satan’s distractions."
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“Hebrews 12 KJV
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,
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.
3.For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4.Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5.And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6.For whom the Lord loves he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7.If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8.But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9.Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?”
___________________________________________________________ About 8 years ago I did a 2 year Bible study on Hebrews, at church It is rich and full. Then it was Daniel for 2 years, Samuel 1 and 2, likewise, Revelation, etc.
Judges,Ruth, one year study for both.
Now it is a 2 year study on Romans. I so recommend these studies. Precept Studies, by Kaye Arthur. I love studying the Word of God. It is a Treasure to the one doing the study.
