While on our vacation, on the Oregon Coast, we love to walk the beach. Usually we walk one way on the beach and one through the town.
I love this image (left) that I took one day that we walked through the town, then through a hotel to the beach. We had to walk through this dark corridor to get to the beach. We have walked this corridor numerous times over the years, but I have no recollection of what that corridor looks like. I didn’t even realized there were windows there until I looked at the photo. You see …
when the place I am headed is so beautiful
I just keep my eyes straight ahead.
I don’t worry about what is to my left or right, or who or what might be behind me. My eyes are focused on where I am going … not where I have been, or other places I could go.
I think this is what Proverbs 4:25 might be telling us:
Focus your eyes straight ahead;
keep your gaze on what is in front of you.
It is so easy to do this on my walk to the beach, because I have memories of what awaits me there. But, in our lives, we have similar memories, for we catch glimpses of the glory (holiness) of God, his perfection, his unfading love and pursuit for us, our souls.
Isaiah 4:2 reminds us “in that day the Branch of the LORD (that is Jesus) will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.”
He, Jesus, is always straight ahead of us. It is on him, straight ahead of us, where our gaze should be, with no need to glance to the left or right, or behind us. All we need is in him, straight ahead.
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.
itsawonderfilledlife 