(Proverbs 4:25) Keep your eyes looking straight ahead.

What we focus on will determine the direction of our lives.

It is so easy for us to get sidetracked from walking the narrow way of following Jesus Christ.

It is so easy to chase our fantasies and emotional impulses down the many rabbit trails of life that lead nowhere.

There are a lot of sparkly and glittering things to our left and right that can get our attention.

But they lead us away from walking in the simple ways of Jesus Christ.

We all need to remember that Satan manifests himself as an attractive angel of light.

Proverbs 4:25 is an exhortation not to get distracted by every new wind of teaching or modern fad that will only hinder our forward focus on Jesus Christ.

We can so easily become static and stuck in our present lives and in our spiritual growth.

We lose the dynamic presence of the Holy Spirit, who moves us forward, not backward or side to side.

We must remember that God is the God of hope and the God of the future.

We must press on toward the future that God has for us.

If we allow Satan to keep us focused on our past—things we cannot do anything about—then our spiritual growth will stop and even decline.

Keep your eyes looking straight ahead!

Spend today meditating on this statement by Paul in Philippians 3:12–14: “Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

Don’t allow yourself to go down the many rabbit trails that fill the modern world, for they will only lead you away from Jesus Christ.

Stay focused!

Stay alert!

Please keep your eyes looking toward your future in God.

Our future is victorious in Jesus Christ!