Don’t Lose your Focus | Pastor Gavin Taylor

Pastor Gavin Taylor

In a horse 🐎 race, horses wear blinders to prevent them from being distracted. Many racehorse trainers believe that blinders keep horses focused on what is in front of them, encouraging them to pay attention to the race rather than the distractions, such as crowds. Horses sometimes need to be made to focus and blinders keep the horse’s eye focused on what is ahead, rather than what is at the side or behind. The jockey 🏇 is usually very small and they have a very small amount of control over the horse. If a horse decides to take a different route, it will simply take the jockey with it. Troublesome race horses are fitted with blinders for their own safety and for the jockey’s safety. The issue is that Horses have their eyes at the sides of their heads, which indicates that they have peripheral vision, which means they can end up running off course unless they are made to remain focused. We are very much like the racehorse. If we don’t stay focused on what’s ahead, we will be overwhelmed by what’s happening around us and behind us.