Recently my husband and I have enjoyed bird watching and I guess you could say nature watching. We both have binoculars. What’s interesting is that we can both be looking in the same direction but see different things. Binoculars are a peculiar tool. It magnifies some things and blurs other things depending on what YOU set them on. They also block out what I would call outside interference allowing your full attention on what is of interest to you at the moment.
This is what I think of when Peter was walking to Jesus on the water in Matthew 14:24-33. At first his binoculars were focused on Jesus and he was able to walk on the water. When he moved the focus to the wind Peter began to sink. His focus was on the wrong thing which produced fear which is not of God. Then Jesus says something very interesting, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?” Taking our focus off of Jesus is considered doubting! Where there is fear, there is doubt. They are like best friends. Two friends we can do without!
Be sure to be mindful where you set your binocular focus. Do not set the focus on the circumstances around you (let them blur that out) but keep it on Jesus (where fear and doubt can’t live).
God is love. So above all else, let love be the beautiful prize for which you run (1 Corinthians 13:13 TPT). Jesus is Lord.