Psalm 25:15
15 Mine eyes [`ayin] are ever [tamiyd] toward the LORD; [Yahovah]
for he shall pluck [yatsa'] my feet [regel] out of the net. [resheth] KJV-Interlinear
15 My
eyes are continually toward the Lord, For He will pluck my feet out of the net.
NASB
All of us follow a
pattern in our daily living habits. This
pattern is what we habitually think and do, day in and day out during our life.
As a child thinks about
food when they are hungry, and toys and play when they are active. Their focus is typically short term or
whatever they are doing in the current moment.
An adult thinks about
adult things. Whether work or social,
the adult typically thinks further out than the current moment.
But regardless of the
time frame, what you do day after day, over and over, again and again, becomes
your habitual pattern of life.
Most folks do not think
about God on a regular basis. Perhaps
when they drive past a church, or are in some sort of bind in life, or on
Sunday, or on holidays, they might have passing thoughts about God, but their spiritual
thoughts are not habitually a part of their daily agenda.
And yet we all live in this
devils world, which is a net or a trap that is intended to destroy us, whether
we recognize that or not.
Those who have a focus on
God, Christ, truth and so forth, are aware that God continually rescues us out
of the ongoing traps that life lays before us.
Those who lack a focus or
even an interest in God, are perpetually trapped, and they don't have a clue
that they are trapped. Until of course,
it is too late, when the end of their life arrives.
Having ones eyes on the
Lord refers to the continual and habitual pattern of ones life which is
consistent and obligatory toward the expectations that God places on each one
of us. Namely to be in fellowship, to
study daily, to pursue your spiritual life as required and expected.
This does not mean that
you give up everything else in life. We
all have to have a job, a career, a means of making a living, and so forth. We all have social lives of one sort or
another. We all have families or friends
or neighbors, or acquaintances with which we interact on a daily basis or from
time to time.
And most of the things
that we have to do day in and day out, cannot be avoided.
But what we also need to
not avoid, is our daily bible study. That is something that we need to schedule
into our daily life at some time during the day or perhaps at the end of the
day. Whatever your daily schedule is, there is always a place where you can make
room for your daily bible study.
Likewise, your thoughts
in your head are continually flowing or cycling through your head. There is always room in your head, despite
the many jokes that you can think of, for spiritual thoughts.
These thoughts can be
your confessions, your memorizations of verses, your prayers, your wondering
about life or God, or your future, or the last study you read, and such. There are many things that you can think
about. And, when you place God in your
thoughts then you begin to give your own life some purpose, you begin to ask
questions, you begin to analyze things, you begin to figure things out, you
begin to become objective and look at life from all angles, you begin to see
life from Gods point of view, you begin to mature.
