When driving a car, our eyes must always stay on the road in order to reach our destination.  Certainly there are times we need to glance down to check gauges and make minor driving adjustments, but if we take our eyes off the road for an extended time we are sure to have an accident.

As Christians, God has commissioned us with a higher purpose for life with wonderful results that continue into eternity. We accomplish that purpose by keeping our eyes on Christ and our Heavenly destination.  But as with driving, our attention must be divided between watching the road and watching our gauges.  We all need to attend to the things of this life, like obtaining food, clothing and shelter for ourselves and family. 

A problem arises when we are overly distracted by the details of life and get our eyes on attaining wealth, success and such.  Ironically, we can quickly lose focus of God in our drive to secure comfort.  When our eyes are off our eternal destination, it should come of no surprise when our spiritual life comes to an abrupt stop. 

In eternity, if God asks why our spiritual-life crashed and brought no glory to Him, it will be embarrassing to admit we took our eyes off the Christian objective because we were too focused on personal objectives or texting the mundane things of this life.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.  - Proverbs 3:5-6