Proverbs 4:25
Let your eyes look straight ahead,
fix your gaze directly before you.
Sometimes I let so many things cloud my vision of Christ. Like this week, I just had a few really important things go down, and I allowed myself to be distracted and worried about the repurcussions of some of those things over the next several years. In the end, I was sitting in my dorm room praying tonight, but mostly yelling at God.
“God, I don’t know what I’m doing! I’m in way over my head, and I don’t know if I’m up to this. What should I do?! Help me!”
So, I left my room, and went for a walk. Almost as soon as I stepped outside Linden, I could feel my head clear. I began to walk and God spoke some amazing and simple stuff to my heart.
“Where are you looking Dustin? Are you looking inside, because you won’t find the strength there. Fix your eyes on Christ, the one who gave you life, and the one who gives you all good gifts.”
Wow, is it really that simple? Yeah, I think it is, in fact, I know it is. It’s just that it scares the bunk out of me to have to give up all my anxiety, and allow Christ to lead my life, especially when it involves other people. It’s so much easier to play it safe with people, and be fake and tepid with them instead of allowing Christ to just express Himself in you. Jesus loves the fact that I’m strange some (most) of the time, and that I’m serious other times. The point isn’t those behaviors, it is a matter of whether they are submitted to Christ in their expression. The only way I can hope to do that is to have my gaze fixed on God, and look to Him as I go.
Proverbs 4:25
Let your eyes look straight ahead,
fix your gaze directly before you.
