You land where your eyes lead you
Deciding to follow the positive
Do you choose to live on the lighter, brighter side of life or do you pick the darker negative world to live in?
There are both negative and positive events going on around all of us all the time and we get to highlight and underline what we want. Some people only see gloom and doom while others see bright skies and sunny days.
It’s not so much what’s in your world but what’s in your world that gets your attention. We all tend to walk in the direction where we are looking, and even if you don’t want to go in a certain direction, if you keep looking there, you will soon arrive there.
Your eyes are under your control and it’s your choice where you decide to look. Wise choices with your eyes bring joy and peace to your soul. Bad choices with your eyes bring destruction and shame into your world.
Jesus said in Luke 11:34 “The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.”
In the Bible, Lot’s family was running away from the city of Sodom, which was being destroyed for its evil ways. Lot’s wife looked back and she was turned into a pillar of salt. She looked back longing to return and ended up as those that were in the city. King David looked at a woman who was bathing and had her husband killed so he could marry her. He did look before he leaped but he wasn’t looking in the right place, so he landed in a mess.
In Sunday school a song the children sing, "Be careful little eyes what you see, be careful little eyes what you see, for the Father up above is looking down in love so be careful little eyes what you see."
I know some adults that should be singing this song. Adults who lust with their eyes, not knowing that when you look in wrong places to see things that you don’t have, it causes you to no longer love and appreciate what you do have.
King David who had his girl- friend’s husband killed repented and asked God to forgive him. With his eyes fixed David wrote in Psalm 121:1-2 “I will lift up my eyes to the hills—From whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”
This is the great truth about the love of God, it’s not what you’ve done wrong in the past but it’s what you’re willing to do right about what you did wrong that counts. There is truly a great hope and a great help that comes from the Lord. Jesus offers grace to forgive anyone who asks to be forgiven. Then by His divine power and mercy He wipes the slate clean and like King David, you get to start over again.
Could you use a new day, a new beginning? Could you use a new inward strength to help you look outward in the right direction? You do deserve to live an abundant life in this world and I pray for your success. Find a good church to attend, God bless you all.