About not being distracted…

9/7/07

Proverbs 4:25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you. 26 Make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are firm. 27 Do not swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.

The power of sin distracts us from walking Christ's straight and narrow path. Sin draws our attention away from the right life, and instead, sin makes us look at the wrong life. Sinful desires take us away from what Christ wants for us and from us. To live a godly life we must focus all our attention upon what is good and godly. We must look straight ahead at Christ standing just before us. The path we take must be only the path Christ wants us to take. We must not walk on paths that are unwholesome and ungodly. We must walk straight ahead and not be distracted from all the sinful attractions on the right or left of our path. When we walk, we must not walk toward evil. Instead we must walk away from evil and toward righteousness at all times.