I could see it coming. A toddler’s head moving straight toward a drinking fountain, oblivious to an impending collision. I cringed at the thud I knew could come.

Immediately, I began singing a rhyme I’d made up, set to a children’s song—one that usually pulled the children’s eyes back to mine:

Let’s go walking, walking, walking

Let’s go walking in the hall.

Eyes on me, me, me

Eyes on me so you don’t fall.

So often as we maneuver around the school in a line, the sights and sounds surrounding them distract the curious children in my class. Heads swivel, bodies twist. Attentions fix on everything and everyone but the one person trying to keep them safe. Me. My little ditty pulls the children’s attentions back to where they belong — on the one guiding them safely through pitfalls.

Like my students, I become distracted too. Only the stakes are much higher than a bump on the noggin.

David understood what was at risk.

He says in Psalm 141:8-10, “But my eyes are fixed on you, Sovereign Lord;   in you I take refuge — do not give me over to death. Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers, from the snares they have laid for me. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.”

David knew that by fixing our eyes on the Lord, we remain focused. We stay on the course God asks us to follow. When traps and snares and even drinking fountains lurk nearby, God provides passage past them. If we’re watching Him.

He calls out to us, asking us to realign our vision, so we don’t stumble into a disaster. To pay attention to the constant cues and course adjustments He offers us in this life.

God asks us to go walking, walking, walking with Him. Eyes on Him. So we don’t fall.

How is He drawing your eyes back to His?

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