A little silver bullet buzzed right at me while teaching yoga class last week. We were about to move into tree pose, so I began my usual spiel, “Find your balance, find a point to fix your gaze, don’t fix your gaze on me, find a stationary place ahead of you…” As I’m saying this, I’m preparing to do the same, looking into a class of “swaying trees” will sometimes cause me to lose my balance, so I gaze ahead where I usually look at a blank spot on the wall. But today, I find myself gazing straight into the eyes of Jesus. That’s right, I said straight into the eyes of Jesus. There was a huge sketch of Jesus in a little alcove, just behind the room I was teaching in, the kind of sketch with such life like eyes you can feel the person looking at you. For a moment, I was speechless as I locked eyes with Jesus. Speechless as I heard the words I had just said to the class…fix your eyes on a stationary point. While balancing in Tree Pose, I’m looking into the eyes of Jesus and recalling a hymn I used to sing in church as a child:
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.
That my friends, is what I call a silver bullet. It buzzed right at me, and I felt it! Life gets crazy here on earth. Our lives can be like a roller coaster ride, full of ups and downs. Somedays more than others. Sometimes, life just doesn’t seem fair. In spite of our best efforts, troubles come. What we can hold onto is the knowledge that in the midst of the good and bad, we can fix our eyes on Jesus, and be reminded that he is beside us, the task he has set before us, and that there is more to come. Fix your eyes on Jesus, he is our stationary point, when you are wavering, he’s standing solid waiting to return your gaze.
Hebrews 12 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
