looking where i want to go...

Sorry for the lull in writing, it’s not that I’ve not had anything to say, just no time to write it!!

I went to a class this week at work and it was interesting, but one thing that was said, but had nothing to do with the presentation, stood out to me.

The speaker is a motivational speaker/coach and also he teaches high performance driving. He made the comment that when you are driving and you begin to skid, keep looking where you want to go. He said too many times people look at where the skid is taking them, as in “Oh, no, here comes those trees, I’m going to crash!!” He said we will drive toward where we look, so look at where you want to go.

I quit thinking about driving about then, and thought about how life causes us to skid sometimes. There are things that we can’t control that hit our lives and we feel like we’re in a “skid.” (And sometimes we leave some skid marks…on the road and in our pants!) Anyway, the point is when those skids happen, many times we look at the worst case scenario, we begin to believe we’re going to crash, and we may still get banged up, but the truth I caught yesterday from God was this: keep your eyes on him and where it is he’s calling you and you will survive the skid. Look where we want to go, and we’ll keep moving in that direction.

Sure, skids happen. (I think I’ve heard something like that before.) But we can and will survive, just keep driving and looking where you want to go.

“Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you.” (Proverbs 4:25 NIV)