Here’s a tip for you to avoid making wrong decisions: “Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways. Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil” (Proverbs 4:25-27).

That is, eagle’s eye, look forward. Which way do you move your feet? Don’t go around walking randomly, accompanying someone just because they are your friend, just because someone walked and said: “Get here”. It’s not because someone called you that you’ll follow. Consider the path well before you set foot on it.

Don’t look at other people’s lives. Look at good examples, but don’t lean on them (because today they can be good examples, but tomorrow they can be bad). The only great example is the Lord Jesus; in Him is all perfection. 

Therefore, the wise man looks to Heaven, to the Creator, because there is no error in Him. Concerning others, don’t look at them. Not even to know what they are doing, to envy, or to try to understand them.

By the way, have you ever stopped to think about how our body was designed? Our eyes were made to look forward. The resting position of the head is looking straight. If you keep your head turned for a long time, you get pain in your neck. Our feet point forward. All human anatomy gives us the tip: look forward and walk forward.

Don’t turn from your ways. King Solomon wrote that. His father, David, prayed: “Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word” (Psalm 119:37). Here, the principle is the same: not to look at what is useless.

And how many people spend hours contemplating vain things on social media? What so-and-so did or didn’t do. And worse: if the only waste was time (which is already precious because time does not come back), there is still the useless content that the person has absorbed. The person, then, can spend months, years, of their life striving to have what they saw in the profile of the other. They try to buy a car or go on a diet. They attribute the possession of something to happiness. “If so-and-so did it and is famous, handsome and rich, if I do it, soon, I will be famous, handsome and rich too.” People are childish in their hearts and minds.

Have you ever stopped and realised that reducing your time on social media can improve your life? What if you focus a little on the Word of God? What if you put your eyes on what is useful?

Look at you and look at God. If you do that, you will grow a lot. And then you’ll realise and think, “My God, how much time I wasted looking at what I shouldn’t”.

Reflect on the subject by watching the video above.