By Cyndi

Ever since I’ve taken up running this year I try to focus on my posture during the run, making sure my form is good. However, now that the temperatures are getting colder, I find myself having a bad tendency to look at the ground right in front of me instead of looking forward up ahead. The cold wind on my face makes my eyes water and it just seems warmer to look down and kind of “tuck” in. So when the Lord told me to “look up”, as I was running in this pathetic form the other day, I put my shoulders back, untucked my head, and looked up-back in my best posture.

Now does God ever speak something to you in the natural, but you know He’s really talking about the spiritual? Well, this was one of those times. Yes, I needed to correct my poor running form, but I also needed to correct my poor spiritual form. So much information about the economy and the election is filling the news and my emails, it is beginning to affect my state of mind and disrupt my peace. There are so many “what ifs?” out there it can be a bit scary. Father God was trying to get my focus back onto Him.

Psalm 121:1-3 says, “I will lift up my eyes to the hills-from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be moved; He Who keeps you will not slumber.” The Word of God is such a comfort in challenging times like these. I need to look up, and know that the Lord will always be there to help me, no matter what happens in the election, the economy or anything else. It is a real tendency to look down and then feel down, affected by all the circumstances surrounding me and worrying about stumbling along the way, but I am choosing right now to look up and keep my eyes straight ahead focused on Him, rejoicing in knowing that He is still God and always will be.