What are you lookin' at?

After Northern Iowa’s win and Kansas’ loss I am sure not looking at March Madness on CBS. In my opinion there is no point. I AM a Kansas alum and a BASKETBALL fan. My dream is to go to the final four one time. Just now, Brother Jeff stopped by to offer his condolences for my Jayhawks. That was nice! So, all that said I am not watching the tournament as closely as I might. You know rescheduling my life to see certain games and teams. The question is what am I looking at?

Tuesday night during our Crossroads 2 Recovery time specifically in the group for those who live with people with addictions etc. a statement was made that to survive we must turn our gaze from the addict and onto ourselves. We must look now to our own health and recovery and not to “the problem.” For the co-dependent the focus away from oneself is consuming their lives slowly suffocating their very existence.

I have been considering that although that is helpful as a first step a first move it will not resolve and begin to heal us. Because I know I am messed up anyway. To look at me as a goal a standard to aspire to is to aim pretty low. If I then miss short I am lower than the low. If that is so and it is what do I look at? Jesus!

This Jesus who is wholeness and holiness, perfection and peace, completeness and constant, resurrection and redemption, life and the light for all men, let’s look at HIM. Aim high, shoot for the stars. Aim for the best. Look where we want to hit and continue to fix our gaze upon perfection. If we miss then we have missed in the right direction. It is so easy to become distracted with politics, calamity, catastrophe, school, work, relationships and life in general. Those all seem so important. Are they worthy goals? In the short term yes, but what about long term?

This Palm Sunday we are reminded that those in Jerusalem were looking at their future King. In their eyes he was their new King on Earth. On Easter Sunday we have the opportunity to look on our Eternal King from Heaven. As this Easter season continues with Spring Break and egg hunts let’s consider what’s in our eyes. Has our attention been caught by the best of the immediate?

What am I looking at?