January 17: A Fixed Gaze Makes a Sure Step

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For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. Proverbs 3:2626For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. (Proverbs 3:26)
RO 3:26{You cannot keep from stumbling at all, but He is "able to keep you from falling," which in the Greek is strongly and distinctly "without stumbling." The least confidence in or expectation from yourself not only leads to inevitable stumbling but is itself a grievous fall. "But, how shall I be kept?" Jesus Himself has answered: "If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world." "Walk in the light," "looking unto Jesus," and so shall we be "kept by the power of God through faith." We tell a little child to look where it steps and pick its way, but Christ's little children are to do just the opposite; they are to look away to Him. "Let thine eyes look (not down, but) right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee," and it is on Him, the Light of the world, that the gaze must be fixed.
Look away to Jesus, look away from all;
Then we need not stumble, then we shall not fall.
From each snare that lureth, foe or phantom grim,
Safety this ensureth: look away to Him.