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“Where we turn our heads is where we’ll land with our lives.”

A thought by Bob Goff from his book, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People (p. 123). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) 

This is so important for us to really grasp and to understand and to do. 

Bob says, “It happens all the time with careers or relationships or possessions. It doesn’t matter whether it’s comparison or distraction or escape that turns our heads—what we look at will be the difference between a great dive and a big disaster. Most of us won’t break our necks when we look or leap wrong, but we may do something equally crippling in a different way.”

He goes on, “We need to be careful where our minds dwell. Many of us dwell on what other people are thinking of us. It’s easy to do. But we can be so busy trying to get the approval of others that we forget who Jesus said we are. Here’s the problem: when we’re busy getting our validation from the people around us, we stop looking for it from God. You’ll know this is happening to you when you go with what’s popular rather than what’s eternal, when you settle for what feels good right now rather than opting for what will make a good and lasting impact a decade from now. If we let our heads turn toward the shallow waters offered by wrong relationships, the rest of our lives will follow where our heads have gone. When we do, we’ll crater instead of create, and we’ll drown in the places where we ought to be swimming.”

So, will you start striving to get your validation from what Jesus says you are rather than what others say?  Will you start today?

Yes, yes!

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