Hebrews 3:1-3, Fix your thoughts on Jesus
Jeremiah has ventured into the world of T-ball and it has been difficult to say the least to keep him focused on the game and practice. His little mind wanders and you will see him leave his position to chase some birds in the outfield or a team mate will hit the ball and Jeremiah doesn’t run because he is playing in the dirt on second base instead of paying attention. We try to explain to him that the key to baseball (T-ball) is to always focus your attention on the ball. If you are batting keep your eye on the ball, if you are running the bases keep your eye on the ball, if you are playing defense keep your eye on the ball. If you focus your attention on the ball, then you will never be lost or at a loss for what to do. The author of Hebrews tells us that living Christian life is a lot like baseball if we keep our focus on the right thing then we will have no problem in the game of life but if we don’t it is easy to get loss and loose track of what is going on around us. Instead of focusing upon the ball the scripture says that we should fix our thoughts upon Jesus who is our apostle and high priest.
The Greek word used here is “katanoestate” and it means that we should carefully consider, set our focus upon, or fully observe. It is almost like we should spend our lives examining Jesus Christ as if he is under a microscope. We are trying to find out every little detail that we can about Him, and we continue to hunger and thirst to know more, we are never satisfied. Our focus and attention are on Jesus and Jesus alone. When we stray from this then this is when we get off track and start chasing birds in the outfield. The world is full of distractions that are designed to take your eyes off the important things and Jesus Christ. We must discipline ourselves that no matter how bad we want to run off and chase them that we are going to keep our eyes on the ball (Jesus Christ). When we are sick, we focus on Jesus, when we are well, we focus on Jesus, when the chips are down, we focus on Jesus, and when our blessings are overflowing, we focus on Jesus. We fix our thoughts on the things above and refuse to be distracted by this world.