Faith Minute® is a one minute program heard on dozens of stations across the country. Each weekday your host, Leith Anderson, shares an inspiring and practical message of hope, encouragement and challenge showing why 'living by faith' can be the most stretching, fulfilling and rewarding experience you will ever have.
January 19, 2012
A farmer was trying to teach his son how to plow a field into straight furrows. He said, “To plow straight, you need a fixed point. Pick a tree or a fencepost and keep your eye fixed on that as you plow. Then you’ll be able to plow in a straight line.”
The father watched from a nearby hill. His son’s first furrow looked more like a corkscrew than a straight line. The farmer went back down the hill and said, “I told you to fix your eye on something.”
The boy said, “I did. I’m watching the cow.”
How many times have we done much the same thing in our lives? Instead of focusing on a fixed point, we foolishly use such grazing cows as emotions or circumstances as our point-of-reference and end up with a twisted mess.
The answer is to set our “fix” on Jesus who’s the same “yesterday and today and forever.”
