Keep your eye on the mark!

I watched a teenager standing at the bus stop, only he wasn't standing, he was walking around and around in circles. I'm not sure what he was doing but he sure wasn't getting anywhere. Someone once told me "if a person aims at nothing in life, it is sure he will hit nothing." We need to keep our eyes on the mark in these difficult times.

In Hebrews 12: 1-4 we read the following words that will help keep us from going around and around in circles and help keep our eyes on the mark, "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 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, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin." May the Lord help us all to keep looking unto Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith.