My eyes are continually toward the Lord - Psalm 25:15
Have you ever seen videos of people who walk into doors or signposts because they’re so engrossed in their phones that they forget to look where they’re going?
What you look at or fail to notice determines where you are going or what you run into.
This is also true metaphorically. When you look at your circumstances, the challenges in your life and the roadblocks on the way, you can sometimes fail to see the goodness of God all around you. David found a solution to this problem:
“My eyes are continually toward the Lord, For He will rescue my feet from the net. Turn to me and be gracious to me, For I am lonely and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged; Bring me out of my distresses. Look at my misery and my trouble, And forgive all my sins. Look at my enemies, for they are many, And they hate me with violent hatred.” – Psalm 25:15-19
David is fully aware of all the problems that surround him, and his challenges are real:
- A net to trap his feet
- Loneliness and affliction
- Troubles of the heart
- Distresses, misery and troubles
- Sins
- Enemies with violent hatred.
Those are some serious issues he’s facing. Yet, in the midst of his struggles, he chooses to keep his eyes continually toward the Lord, just like Paul teaches us in Hebrews 12:2, where he says to fix your eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.
friend, when you, like David, focus your eyes on God instead of on your troubles, you will realise that your problems are minor compared to God’s unfathomable greatness, His endless mercies and His steadfast love for us.
I encourage you to pray Psalm 25 over yourself and your family every day this week.
What I do is that I add the name of our family in the final verse so it reads “Deliver the Mendes family, O God, from all our distress!” You can do the same and I will pray it with you: “Deliver friend, O God, from all their distress!”
