TAKE AIM!

Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways.  Proverbs 4:25

I had never driven a car until the day I began my driver education course. But I had fired a gun, thanks to the careful oversight of my grandfather. “Look right down the barrel,” he said, “and put the front sight on what you are shooting at.”

Well, transferring that instruction to trying to drive, I got into my driver training Ford LTD and picked up driving along the highway where the last student driver had left off. “Why do you keep veering off the road?”, my instructor asked. I answered that I was trying to keep the steering wheel straight, and that I was aiming the car by looking at the hood ornament! The instructor did not hesitate to tell me that, when you drive, you have to look farther ahead than the hood. You keep your eyes 500 feet ahead so that you are aware of the whole situation that’s coming. That way, you aren’t surprised by things going on around you.

We must walk the same way in life, letting God’s light show us what is coming and what is around us. Lighting the path is as important as putting our feet down. God makes our feet stable on the Rock. But it is our job to make sure that the path is the one that He has chosen for us.

Davy L. Troxel