Eyes On The Shore…

Those who leave everything in God's hand

will eventually see God's hand in everything.

Read: 1 Samuel 17:32-51

Worries end where Faith begins!

I hope this message encourages and inspires your heart to focus on the goals that are in your heart. When we keep our eyes on the prize, nothing shall be impossible to us.

Eyes On The Shore…

A story is told about a bloodhound chasing a stag. A fox crossed the path, so the hound chased the fox. After a while a rabbit crossed the path, so the hound chased it. Later, a mouse crossed the path and the hound chased the mouse into a hole. The hound began his hunt on the trail of a magnificent stag and ended up watching a mouse hole!

Not that there is anything wrong with spontaneity. Some of the most wonderful things have come into my life by beautiful accident. But there is also something to be said for knowing where we want to go.

Florence Chadwick learned the importance of keeping a goal in mind on July 4, 1952. She waded into the Pacific Ocean off Catalina Island and began swimming toward the California coast 26 miles away. The day was cold and her attendants drove off sharks throughout the journey.

Florence had already swum the English Channel twice and, if she could finish today, she would be the first woman to have swum both. But after fifteen hours in the water, for the first and only time in her long-distance swimming career, she gave up and climbed into the escort boat. Others had urged her on, but in the fog they could not tell her how near she was to the coast. She later learned that she was less than half a mile from shore.

When asked by a reporter why she gave up, Florence replied: “It was the fog. If I could have seen land, I could have finished. But when you can't see your goal, you lose all sense of progress and you begin to give up.”

On a warm, sunny day two months later Florence Chadwick swam the Catalina Channel, handily beating the men's record. Only when she kept her eyes on the shore did she eventually arrive there.

Keeping that goal constantly in sight will get you where you want to go.

Be encouraged to re-evaluate your life goals. Have you been sidetracked and lost focus of your main goals in life? Let this message rekindle the fire within your spirit to focus again on why God has you on this Earth. Always remember that you are special and are called to accomplish great things in life.

Rejoice in God’s message of Love for you:

“Delight yourself in the LORD 

and he will give you the desires of your heart. 

Commit your way to the LORD; 

trust in him and he will do this:

He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, 

the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. 

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him...”  ( Psalm 37:4-7)

( by Michael Raymond)