This week my husband, Chris, has been telling me off again
for my lack of spatial awareness. Or as he calls it, ‘not watching what I’m
doing’.
I don’t think this is very fair. I DO watch what I’m doing
(for example, putting a bottle of wine on the window sill, which I did
successfully yesterday). It’s just that I don’t always watch what I’m doing for long enough, (for example, nearly
knocking off the glass that was also on the windowsill, as I walked away...).
Chris tried to teach me to play badminton years ago. He made
one observation that significantly improved my play. He noticed that every time
the crucial moment came and the shuttlecock was flying towards me, I would raise
my racket and close my eyes! Now I don’t really understand me (or anyone else)
having a morbid fear of being hit in the face with a shuttlecock, but that’s
what I was doing. At the last minute, I would close my eyes. And when I made a
concerted effort to keep my eyes on the shuttlecock right through to the moment
I hit it, my play improved considerably.
How often is it, spiritually speaking, that we are taking
our eyes off the prize too early? Maybe
we start out doing something with God’s plans in mind, but very quickly we
start focussing on our own concerns or ideas.
When you ask God to lead you, you have to see it through.
Fight the urge to take back control from Him! Likewise, when you give your life
to God - for HIS purposes - you have to fight the urge to start planning what
YOU want instead!
Your life is about what God wants. Which is, in fact, what
is best for you and those around you. Re-allign your focus and remember what Jesus
said to Martha in Luke 10: 41:
You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is
needed.
And by that He meant,
you only need to keep your eyes on God.
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