As many of you already know, one of the dangers in riding a motorcycle is something called, "object fixation." What happens is you fix your eyes on something on the road, a branch, or a dead animal, and then your body leans causing the motorcycle to travel right to whatever you are looking at.
This causes a lot of accidents.
It's the same with our walk with the Lord.
It's easy to take our eyes off Jesus. Maybe we are looking at our past sins, or perhaps we are looking at other peoples faults? Then there are those times we are looking at things we know we shouldn't be looking at.
The result is the same, we will eventually run right into whatever we are looking at.
The writer of Hebrews exhorts us, "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith." Heb 12:1-2 (NIV)
So how do we focus on Jesus? We focus on his word, we focus on what pleases him, we focus on what we know is true and right.
"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. " Phil 4:8 (NIV)
Can it be any clearer than that?
