Keep Your Focus On Jesus

Hebrews 12:2
We must focus on Jesus, the source and goal of our faith. He saw the joy ahead of him, so he endured death on the cross and ignored the disgrace it brought him. Now he holds the honored position—the one next to God the Father on the heavenly throne.

I was a bull rider for 16 years of my life, and there was a saying we referred to all the time. You are going to land where you look. If you ever watch bull riding, you will often times notice before a bull rider bucks off his bull he turns and looks that very direction. One of the keys to being successful in making a qualified ride is you do not want to take your eyes off of that bulls shoulders. Wherever his shoulders are headed his front feet will go, and you want to be headed that same direction.

You do not look at a bulls head because he may often throw his head one direction while then making a move to go the other direction. And if you look away from him to the ground you are going to wind up there. You have to stay focused on his shoulders in the midst of all the different moves the bull throws at you. So it is for the believer to walk by faith and not by sight. You must get your focus on Jesus and never turn away. Jesus is the Word that became flesh. To focus on Him, we focus on who we are, what we have, and what we can do in Christ revealed through the Word.

Many things in life will try to get you distracted to look at the circumstances you are facing instead of your Savior who has already given you the victory. Notice it refers to Jesus here seeing the joy set before Him enduring the suffering of the cross. Jesus looked beyond the suffering, and He saw the victory that He knew was on the other side. That is what faith does. It looks beyond what is trying to distract you from what Jesus has done to provide victory for your life. So don’t get distracted. Stay focused on Jesus through the Word, and you can overcome any challenge you face and like Jesus be victorious.

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