Keep Your Blinders On!

I was listening to the Minister's sermon this morning when he said something that really touched my spirit.  I've thought about it before, but for some reason it struck a chord with me and my mind began to race.  What he said was something to this effect:  Jesus was born to die.  He lived His life to die.  That's why He came and then he admonished us to keep our blinders on. This is so true.  Jesus did come to die.  To die for us and our sins.  He was born for that purpose.  He knew He was facing the cross and He lived His whole life that way, facing the cross.  The Minister exhorted us to keep our blinders on, inferring to a horse with blinders.  We too are born to die.  We must live our whole that way.  I'm convinced that man cannot really live, until he faces the fact that he is going to die.

I remember when I was a little girl, my grandpa would put blinders on his horses when he would use them to plow.  That way they would not be distracted by anything in their view.  They would look straight ahead to the task that was before them and stay focused.  Proverbs 4:25 says it like this, "Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you." 

Oh, how many times do you and I get distracted in this life!  And it's by the little things that don't really matter one iota.  We begin to look at the things that are not important and forget about the things that are important.  We get so caught up in the cares of this life, like our jobs, other people's opinions, material things, our looks and on and on.  These things are not what really matter.  It's God, family and others that are important.  Just like Marley tells Scrooge in Charles Dicken's , A Christmas Carol,  "mankind was my business!" and it's so true.  Mankind was Jesus' business and it should be our business too.  

This is exactly what we as Christians should do.  Keep focused and looked straight ahead to the task before us, because actually we are born to die also.  One day we will all stand before the Judgement seat of Christ and be judged for how we lived our life here on earth.  This life is so short.  The Bible compares it to a vapor or a flower that is here today and gone tomorrow.  It is so true.  Life is short.  We are only here for a little while, so just like the Minister so aptly stated in his sermon, "keep your blinders on!"

Listen to this song by Evie Tornquist that tells us what really matters.