Life Fixings

One of my Mom's specialties is chocolate syrup.  Homemade ice cream is not complete without the fixings -- her homemade syrup.  It must have been frustrating to work so hard to get the ice cream ready, serve it to us, only to hear (usually in surround sound) ... "where's the syrup!"

Paul wrote about the fixings for Christians: "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." (2 Corinthians 4:18)  Satan loves to dangle fears and imaginations in front of us to paralyze us. He'll do anything to take our eyes off Christ, and he does it well!  Did you know that the eagle's eyesight is four to eight times stronger than human eyesight?  Eagles' eyes can be compared to zoom lens on a powerful camera: the bird can see not only what is up close but things far away.  God reminds us in this passage how as His Children we have an edge when it comes to eyesight. We do not have to be scared stiff by wild imaginations (or what if's). We can on purpose, with determination, and by choice fix our eyes on Jesus Christ Who loves us beyond and above anything unseen or seen.  Staying focused on Jesus Christ is like fixings for the ice cream -- it just makes life all the sweeter!