Today in bible study we focused on Psalm 123. Verse one says:
"I lift my eyes to you, the One enthroned in heaven."
In the lesson book it said:
"I'd like to suggest that an entire chain reaction begins with our eyes and ultimately affects our hearts, souls, and minds. Where we LOOK – where we genuinely fasten our gaze – amid continual life challenges has a tremendous impact on how we feel."
~ Beth Moore
In the discussion that followed, someone shared a story that sent the point home.
She said, "We have a deck that is impossible to sit outside on because of the constant wind. We enclosed it with plexiglass to keep the wind out, but there's no roof on it. Every once in awhile a bird will come down inside the glass and trap itself. It will spend endless minutes banging against the glass. I stand there and think, if it would only look UP! Then finally, after battering itself back and forth, it sees the sky and up it goes."
How many times in our continual life challenges do we get distracted by everything happening around us? How much time do we spend banging around from this person to that person, this thing to that thing, to try to find our way out of the difficulty so we can feel better? What if we just stopped and simply looked up like Psalm 123 suggests? It would hurt a lot less and make us feel better faster.
And so, as another day goes by, this coming week I will mind the direction of my gaze to avoid severe bruising, and …I have written.
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