By Brad Campbell –

Just a thought to help start your week.

I’ve introduced you to Granddog previously.  He recently spent several days with us while his parents were on a well-deserved vacation trip.  He is no trouble.  He lets us know when he needs to go outside.  He knows what time is supper time, and he responds quite energetically to the question, “Are you hungry?”  He also knows when it’s bedtime and eagerly trots off to find his comfy spot for the night.

I suppose it’s the “lab” in him that makes him so very curious.  When he and I head outdoors for his bathroom trips, I may have him on a long leash, but his attention is fixed anywhere but on me.  He puts new meaning to the exclamation “squirrel!” and will about jerk by arm out of socket taking off after one.  He sniffs every flower or weed.  He watches the birds, and he is amazed by those larger-than-life-to-him cows and horses.  His eyes are on everything, it seems, except the mission at hand.

But, when he and I are back inside the house, the distractions are all but gone, and his every attention is focused on me, what I’m doing, and where I’m going.  You see his gaze fixed on me here as I sat in the chair near him.

A simple little verse in Proverbs (4:25) says this, “Let your eyes look directly ahead and let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you.”  Granddog certainly has this down pat.  But what does the verse mean for us?  Simply put, if my eyes are looking directly ahead and fixed on the Father, then the ever-abundant distractions of life will fade away.  When I focus my gaze on Him, watch what He is doing, and where He is going, then I have no excuse but to see and do what I should.

In the busy-ness of life, may our eyes be as fixed upon the Lord as Granddog’s have been on me!

Just a thought.