Watch Where You Are Going

 

Disclaimer: Obviously I am not an actual angel. However, I feel like God speaks to my heart and I would love to share it with you. Please enjoy.

 Do you ever think about how important it is to watch where you are going? What are your eyes focusing on? What movies are you watching? What books are you reading? Who are the people you are looking to as your examples to model your life after?

You might think those things aren’t really that important. After all, you can take the good and leave the bad, but do you?

When my brother, Rick, was a little boy my dad walked into the room where my brother was watching television one day. The show he was watching showed two thugs beating up an old man. My father was very upset to see that my brother was laughing at it. From then on my father watched more closely what was on the TV. He had realized that my little brother, who was about 5 years old, was being desensitized to the violence he was seeing. As soon as my father watched more closely what Rick was seeing, Rick went back to the same caring young boy he had always been.

So, you might think you won’t be affected by what you see. After all, you are a grown-up, not a little child. Really? Then why do you think companies spend multi-millions of dollars showing you commercials? They know that when you see something enough times, you start believing it, or liking it.

If King David had looked away when he saw Bathsheba bathing on the roof, he would have been okay. Instead, he kept looking and ended up having an affair with her, and even sent her husband to the front lines of a war so he would be killed, and he could marry her. He paid dearly for it.

When we keep our eyes on Jesus we will walk toward Him. We cannot look one way and walk another without stumbling or even falling. There are always rocks and holes in the road that will cause us to trip if we aren’t paying attention.

Sometime try to walk forward while looking backward. You can walk forward while looking to the side, which is risky enough. However, try to look backward while walking forward. You cannot do it. To look backward you have to turn around. What is behind us is no longer important.  

Always remember that God is ahead of you. When you look back you are turning away from God. That is never a good thing. Keep your eyes forward and the road to God is a lot easier.

Some people will tell you that all roads lead to God. Actually, that is true. No matter what road you take in this life, you will end up before God. The question is, what will He say to you?

If you have taken the road He has laid out before you according to His word, the Bible, He will say, “Well done good and faithful servant. Enter into your reward.”

If you have taken your own road, trying to bypass Jesus, then you will hear Him say, “Depart from Me. I never knew you.”

So yes, all roads lead to God, but only one road, Jesus, leads to heaven.

Always be careful to watch where you are going, or you will start going where you are watching.

Think about it.

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