I have been accused of jumping before I looked…As my sister puts it I “hurry quickly!” Some times that has brought some serious consequences. I was 15, weighed about 90 lbs and decided I wanted to parachute. And to my surprise, my parents let me (what were they thinking?) The chute weighed 45 lbs, I could barely walk with the weight on my back. It was a clear, crisp, spring Iowa morning and my family was at the landing sight cheering me on. I went up in the small plane and jumped! I was on the top of world, I could see for miles. I was young and inexperienced and the landing strip was a large cleared field, I was sure I could hit it and my landing would be perfect as my family watched on, but my eyes were diverted to the red barn to the north of the field, as I descended, it was getting closer, I panicked. I knew I had to do something, so I quickly pulled the left toggle found myself spinning out of control and I landed about a ½ a mile from the target. With my, not so graceful, landing, I successfully wiped out an entire row of corn. I remember laying there under the opened chute with the wind knocked out of me listening to my mom screaming as she ran toward me. My Dad picked me up, got me untangled, out of my gear and drove us home. I didn’t say a word the entire time and I slept for the rest of the afternoon. I had my focus on the wrong spot and wound up in the corn. When we get our focus right, God will allow us to land on target. He will keep us from wiping out an entire row corn and knocking the wind out of us. Do you focus on what matters or are you worried about the red barn?
Commitment moves forward without hesitation, when your focus is on God – Jesus knew when change was needed and moved forward at the time necessary to make the changes happen. He was not the like the Pharisees in Luke 7, who spent their time rationalizing their inconsistencies. Yet he said in Luke 7:35 “Wisdom is shown to be right by the lives of those who follow it.”
Changing my focus, Tammy