Where Are Your Eyes Focused?

“Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied,

“tell me to come to you on the water.”

“Come,” he said”

Matthew 14:28-29

What stands between you and victory?

“Victory over what?” you ask.

Anything, anything you are facing, anything you are struggling with.

“Well, that’s easy, it’s the devil!”

That’s a standard response we often give but too often it is an ‘easy out’.

What do I mean by that?

Sometimes it’s just plain easier to blame something or someone outside of our selves.

What if the problem lies with what we say, what we listen to or what we watch?

Often it can be.

When Jesus called Peter out on the water and he stepped out of the boat, what caused him to start to sink?

It wasn’t one of the demons Jesus had previously cast out of someone.

It was what Peter allowed to impact his mustard seed faith.

The wind and the waves were not even to blame.

Peter himself allowed those things to shift his focus off of the Lord and onto them.

Admit it – you do the same thing.

So do I.

Let’s refocus back off of our circumstances whatever they may be.

Let’s look afresh on Jesus.

He is walking on the water to us.

He is inviting us to step out of the boat – daily – and come to Him.

Where are your eyes focused?