Fixating on God
A girl once told me a story of how someone had driven
down her street, saw her, and continued to stare at
her rather than watching the road and hit a parked
car. Oops. Some poor guy was no doubt incredibly
embarrassed as he explained his situation to the
police.
Sin does that to us, though. It takes a glance and
turns it into a stare. It turns the stare into sinful
thoughts. Why do people do this? In an attempt to
get more, to get closer, to see better, the process
becomes more and more sinfully fixated. Even to the
point that is takes us out of situations that require
obvious attention. Each of us has this inclination to
fixate on something in this life that is not about
God. That is why the first commandment is one that,
if kept, all others would follow. "Thou shalt have no
other gods" means nothing else comes before God. God
comes first in everything.
Please understand that the problem of fixating really
isn?t the problem. The problem is our sinful nature.
Fixating is exactly what God wants us to do on Him! He wants
us to want more, to get closer, to see
better, when it comes to knowing Him. He wants us to
realize that there is nothing that requires obvious
attention except our attention to God. Because of
Jesus Christ who fulfilled the law on our behalf and
bore our sins on the cross, we can now spend an
eternity fixating on God. We can bask in his glory
and absorb the warmth of living in perfection. "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 12:2
William Hiskey
DCE, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Bowling Green, KY
Updated: 06-03-03
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