Fix Your Eyes
Focus that steadies you.
Keeping your attention on God.
The big idea
What you fix your eyes on determines where you walk.
What does “Fix Your Eyes” walk through?
Lay Aside Weights
Hebrews 12:1 · KJV
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
In plain English
Drop the weights. Drop the sin that keeps tripping you. Run the race set in front of you — patiently.
Travel Light
Some things just slow you down. Lay them aside to run free.
Think on These
Philippians 4:8 · KJV
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just... think on these things.
In plain English
Fill your mind with what's true, honest, just, pure, lovely. Don't dwell on the rest.
Mind the Input
Your thoughts follow your focus. Aim them at what's true and good.
Pray
Lord, fix my eyes on you. Quiet the distractions. Amen.
Write it down
What's pulling your focus away from God right now?
You finished: Fix Your Eyes
You move toward what you stare at. Look to him.
Which passages does this journey use?
2 passages, drawn from Hebrews 12:1, Philippians 4:8. Every verse appears here in the King James text with a plain-English line beside it, so you can read it without a commentary open. Allow about 5 minutes for the whole thing, or 5 short sittings.
- Hebrews 12:1
- Philippians 4:8
Read any of these in full on the complete KJV, or look the wording up independently at Blue Letter Bible.
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