What If? Part II: The Power of Vision
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." -Hebrews 12:1-2 Think back to your first driving lesson. When you finally made it out on the road for the first time you learned that wherever you looked, the car would follow. If you gazed at the oncoming traffic, your car seemed magnetically attracted to them (much to the dismay of your parent-passenger). Wherever you set your eyes, your path with follow. This is universally true! The scripture is full of examples of how people’s lives and choices were deeply effected by where the gazed. In Genesis, Lot pitched his tent toward Sodom, two chapters later we find him living