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Proverbs!
Proverbs 4:23, 25 CEB
[23] More than anything you guard, protect your mind, for life flows from it. 
...
[25] Focus your eyes straight ahead; 
keep your gaze on what is in front of you.  
Proverbs 4:23, 25 CEB
These ideas at the end of Ch4 seem connected to guarding our mind (our "leb", heart, mind, will, the centre of who we are). 
V24 is about avoiding lies and being careful with our words, and V25 is kind of the opposite to what we avoid, to focus on what is in front.
I wonder what the writer of Proverbs would make of our world where there is so much clamouring for our attention, wanting to take our focus, distract us.
Somedays it seems we're fighting to retain any kind of focus...and that's what this Proverb invites us to do...retain our focus.
Two ways that this Proverb encourages us in...the first is about what is in front of us, not getting lost in the "if only" or the "what if", but staying in the here and now, staying where we have power to change and shift things.
And the second way is the underpinning of Proverbs, to seek Wisdom, a deeper wisdom, to find and see The Eternal in the world around us, in the faces of those we see and meet, embedded in His Word to us, the life of Jesus and the scripture we've been left with...
Search out Life and focus on these things...
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