Are You Focused on The Rabbit?

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by Mike Reed, Director of Student Ministries @ MBC Loudoun

Are you familiar with dog races? They are just like horse racing, they line them up on a track. Now I want you to understand something about these dogs…when they are trained…they are trained to keep their minds on ONE thing…the rabbit. They put this electronic rabbit on the inside of the track and the dog grows up just thinking about these RABBITS! I read an article one time that down in Miami these dogs were running as fast as they could and all of a sudden the rabbit stops…and sparks start flying off this thing…and it blows up! You just have these charred hairs and wires.

The interesting thing is the dogs response to that. As soon as the rabbit died, two dogs started biting each other, one started howling, one just started running in circles, one didn’t know what to do, and one ran into the wall and broke 3 ribs!

You know we are no different from these dogs? We all have “a rabbit” in our life at times, that really bad moment, or a failure, and all we do is fix our eyes on that issue… we have people who start howling, some spin out of control, and the amazing this is not one dog would go past the rabbit, ANY of the dogs could have just trotted by and won! But you know what? The dogs had NEVER been trained to look past the rabbit…

In John 14:1-6 Jesus is training his disciples to look past the rabbit…to look past the really bad day, past the bad moment, the thing that is causing you so much anxiety…He is teaching them not to get so fixed on the trouble, and he brings a message of hope…Jesus calls us to not be troubled, but to transfer our hope from ourselves onto Him, to look toward our future home in heaven, and to hope in the person of Jesus Christ. Our hope is personal, it’s in the object of God’s son.