The Secret Of The Third Prince.

The Secret of the Third Prince.

Psalm 25:15NLT

We were walking through a large open Desert plain covered with loose sand. As we walked my friend told me to seek to walk in a straight line. So I kept walking as he watched. He let me go on for a few minutes. “Stop,” he yelled from the distance. Now turn around and look.

I was sure that I had been walking a straight line, but the foot prints in the sand revealed that I had veered markedly off to the right.

What’s the answer? How can ‘one’ walk straight for a long distance?

Psalms 25:15NLT “My eyes are always on the Lord, for he rescues me from the traps of my enemies.”

Matthew Henry: Those that have their eye ever towards God shall not have their feet long in the net.

Again, David cries, “My eyes are forever on the Lord, My feet are continually set free, and delivered from satan’s trap!”

My friend said, Howard, let me tell you a story.

There was once a king, who issued a challenge to the princess of a neighboring land that whoever among them could, over a long journey of varying landscapes, walk in a straight line to the kings castle would have the right to ask for his daughters hand in marriage.

The first prince embarked on the journey, looking to his right, and left to make sure he was not veering off in either direction.

But, like me, despite his best efforts, the further he journeyed, the more off course he veered.

The second prince determined to look down, to keep his eyes on his feet, making sure that every footstep followed in the same path as the foot step before. -Yet he too ended badly off course.

But the third prince embarked on the journey, looking neither to the right, nor the left, nor down at his footsteps.

And yet at the end, he was determined that he had walked in a straight line. No one could figure out how he did it. So he told them his secret.

~All I did was look into the far distance to the light on the crown of the castle tower. I didn’t look at my path or the landscape to my right and left. I just kept my eyes on that light, and kept pressing on toward that light, until I arrived there.

Where is you gaze? What makes you stare? What is your focus?

Fortuneteller, gazing into crystal ball, to frog: “You are going to meet a beautiful young woman. From the moment she sets eyes on you she will have an insatiable desire to know all about you. She will be compelled to get close to you--you’ll fascinate her."

Frog: "Where am I? At a singles club?" Fortuneteller: "Biology class."

Again the text, Psalms 25:15AMP “My eyes are continually toward the Lord, For He will bring my feet out of the net.”

Ive drawn this conclusion, “If my eyes are set on the Lord, He will be responsible to keep me safe. He will rescue me from every trap, because my eyes are fixed on my Lord.”

For the doubter, the skeptic who would say, “What if He doesn’t rescue me?”

Jesus states in, Matthew 10:28AMP Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; but rather be afraid of Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

“No where in scripture are we taught to fear the devil. Believers are taught to resist the devil and he will flee!” P.H

We are called to walk a straight path in God. -But how does one do that over the course of a lifetime and over a long journey of varying landscapes and changing circumstances?

Know this for sure: Not by focusing on your circumstances, or even on your own walk.

Rather, you fix your eyes on your destinations, despite your surroundings, despite the mountains and the valleys, despite the highs and the lows, despite even your own walk and footsteps.

Martin Luther had a dream in which he stood on the day of judgment before God Himself--and Satan was there to accuse him. When Satan opened his books full of accusations, he pointed to transgression after transgression of which Luther was guilty. As the proceedings went on, Luther's heart sunk in despair. Then he remembered the cross of Christ--and turning upon Satan, he said, "There is one entry which you have not made, Satan." The Devil retorted, "What is that?" And Luther answered, "It is this- the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses from all sins."

You fix your eyes on the eternal, on Him… And you press forward, pressing always closer to Him… Your goal… And you will surely end up there… And straight will be your journey.