Driving down the road, do you look out ahead of you or do you look at the hood of your car? Seems like a crazy question, right? If you only look at the hood, you can't see what's happening and you are going to wind up crashing. It may be a small crash or you might run head-on into a train. That's why you have to look ahead, to see what is going to be happening seconds or even minutes before you are there in your car.

In life, do we look ahead or just to our eyelids? Do you look to see God, to see heaven? Satan doesn't want us looking that far. He wants us focused on the hood of the car - on something that isn't important - so that we will have a crash before we reach our destination. Oh, he knows that we will have some little fender benders but Satan wants us to keep our focus on the unimportant hoping we will have that big crash, the one that will destroy us and everything around us. God wants us to look to the future, to see the bigger picture, to see the road ahead so we can navigate around the problems. By looking to Him, we can see the obstacles that are in our way of reaching our destination. By looking to Him, our focus is on what is truly important. By looking to Him, the devil suffers loss.

Stay focused on what is true, what is real, what is good. The true blessing that awaits us is down the road, we just have to keep our eyes on it.