Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.Let thine eyes look right on, And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
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… that have hurt you but somebody say i'm fixing my focus say it like you mean it i'm fixing my focus look at proverbs 4 25 it says look straight ahead and fix your eyes fix your focus on what lies before you mark out a straight path for for your feet stay on a safe path don't get sidetracked Somebody say, don't get sidetracked. Stop getting sidetracked by all the little things in life that come to affect you. Stop getting sidetracked. Stop looking at them. See, because when I stopped looking at them, but they're still coming, I don't even have the opportunity to get ready to get offended. I can't even catch the offense because I didn't see it coming. You meant to hurt me, but I didn't even see it. You meant to make me mad, but I didn't even catch it. I am not going to fix my focus on everything that's coming my way. And that's why letting go is about what you look at. …
… chapter 4. Proverbs chapter 4 tells us this. Proverbs chapter 4, verse 23 to 27. Keep your heart. So you bind these things around your neck. You write them on the tablet of your heart. How do you do this? You do that to do this. Keep your heart. Guard it. Watch over it. Listen, young people. Guard your heart with all diligence. For out of it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth. and put perverse lips far from you. Let your eyes look straight ahead, and your eyelids look right before you. Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or to the left. Remove your foot from evil. What a statement. By the way, these are the words of a father to a son. How much more should all of us in this day and age, we are 3,000 years removed from Solomon's day, this wisdom today, if it could be wiser, which it can't be, it's eternal, but if it's more needed today than ever before, I would say yes to that. …
… to the passage again and again and again and again at your leisure. So what is the passage? Well, the passage is Proverbs 4, verses 20 to 27. Let me just walk you through it. Begins with the words, my son, right? The early chapters of Proverbs, my son. Remember how Hebrews 12 transposes that into the mouth of God. Have you forgotten the exhortation from Proverbs in which he, God, addresses you as his sons. So, this is the Father, as it were, speaking the Word of God to the Son. So, let us transpose that into the Lord speaking the Word of God to pastors. What does he say to us? Well, he says seven things, I think, seven things. Or if there are more, it's kind of nice to think that there are seven basic principles. Verses 20 to 21, you will be safeguarded so long as you keep giving your attention to the Father's voice in his word. That's a guarantee. His word will keep you and give you integrity. …