Let your eyes look right on [with fixed purpose], and let your gaze be straight before you.
I am leaving soon on a ministry trip to Europe where I will teach nine times. I want to be totally prepared for all of the teaching sessions when I leave, so I made a plan to stay home all day today and finish the messages I had not yet completed. I finished all of them except for one and started being double minded about whether or not I wanted to finish or quit working and do something more relaxing. Does that sound familiar?
I knew that the best choice was to stay on track, so I did. When I finished the last message, I felt a huge sense of relief that everything was done and I was ready to go. I was so glad that I was finished, and I didn’t have to face tomorrow with the project still needing to be done. I still have time to relax, but now I can do it with joy rather than a feeling that I really should have stayed on track.
The next time you find yourself in a similar situation, I urge you to ask yourself how you will feel later if you quit halfway to your goal. A job half done doesn’t feel as good as a job completed!
Prayer of the Day: Father, help me stay focused and on track when I have a job to do. I want to be a person who finishes what I start.
