Psalm 25:15 Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
How long do you wait before you think about your problems in the morning? Maybe you are thinking, “Wil, I try to wait to think about my problems, but they won’t wait to think about me! My problems crawled out of bed about 4:30 in the morning and have been at me ever since.” Well, I think we all understand what that feels like. So, you have a choice today. You can focus on your problems, or you can focus on the One Who can focus on your problems and focus on you. That is God.
I am not suggesting that any of us abdicate responsibility. I am talking about the way we take on our responsibility without taking on the anxiety that accompanies our problems and issues every day.
Psalm 25:15 says, “Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.” “Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD.” This is a recurrent theme in the book of Psalms. Psalm 5:3 says, “My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.” So, when we are talking about focus, we are talking about looking to God. We are talking about praying, giving our problems to God and asking for His help, guidance, provision, direction, protection, etc.
Psalms 3 and 4 talk about sleeping in peace and God sustaining us. Psalm 5 talks about looking to God first thing in the morning. We tend to grudgingly find sleep because our problems have their hooks in us and demand for us to pay attention. Then, the first thing in the morning we wake up with an anxious heart, thinking about our problems. So, all night long we have been dwelling on problems whether conscious or unconscious.
Psalm 34:3-5 says, “O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.” My fears look to God. Psalm 123:2 says, “Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.” So, we are looking for guidance, direction, protection, and provision from the One Who can do all of those things.
The theme that we find recurring in all these psalms is the theme of focus, focusing on God. That is a matter of prayer and dependence. It is a choice every day. The choice today is to dwell on your problems or to dwell on God. What I would suggest is that every time a problem suggests itself to you, you throw yourself to God. In short, look to God and let Him look to everything else.
The psalmist says, “Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD.” Then to God he says, “Look upon mine affliction.” Whatever the day brings your way, look to God and let God look to everything else including you and the issues of your day.