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Ever
try to find your way around blindfolded? You can be in the most familiar
of places and still do a lot of stumbling and can even get lost. We take for granted
all of the thousands of calculations per second our brains do just to keep us
standing upright and navigating a simple room. Take away our sight and suddenly
there is a great deal of information missing that your brain normally counts on.
I tried an experiment of just closing my eyes and trying to
walk slowly in a straight line in one of the meeting rooms of our church. It
wasn't long before I had veered slightly and found myself bumping the furniture.
However, the longer I did it, the better I got at it. I started noticing
that I could navigate by sounds. How my footsteps echoed, wind sounds from
the windows, and various other things started to give my mind the fixes it needed
to tell me what to do.
Our minds need information to steer us, our hearts also
need to be fixed on something to keep on the right spiritual path. In the
battle with sin for instance, we should have an overwhelming goal in mind as part
of our motivation to defeat sin. The perfect goal to keep in mind is Jesus
Christ. The writer of Hebrews exhorts us to "keep our eyes on Jesus" (Hebrews
12:2). He is to be the object of our spiritual focus.
You need a fix! On who or what will it be, so that you can run the race
of life? You will fix on something; why not choose Jesus?
All Scripture references are from the New American
Standard Version unless otherwise noted.
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