The Goal Is In (His) Sight

The final verse of Do What Is Right urges us to "Do what is right; be faithful and fearless.
Onward, press onward, the goal is in sight." Yet, our goal of Eternal Life is a lofty one, one of which we mortals easily lose sight. Caught up as we are with our day-to-day lives and whatever mortal afflictions trouble us at the moment, we sometimes forget the big picture of why we have mortal lives in the first place. And even when we remember who we are and what we're striving for, sons and daughters of God striving for eternal perfection, that goal can seem so lofty and distant that it seems impractical to spend much thought on it. After all, it hardly makes sense to figure out how one will climb a given mountain when the foot of the mountain is still hundreds of miles away, right? We'll cross that bridge when we get there. Why think about a mountain when we're not even close to it? But remaining focused on that mountain is the only way to get close to it. To reach our ultimate destination, we have to think impossibly far ahead.

Thankfully, we don't have to do that alone. God can help keep us on the path back to Him, partly because that path is always fresh in His mind. We might forget why we're on Earth and where we're trying to go, but God doesn't. Our distance from that celestial mountain may cause us to lose sight of it, but our goal is always in God's sight, and He is constantly trying to lead us to it.

So if we ever lose sight of why we're here and where we're going, we can take comfort in knowing that He won't. He can always guide us toward our ultimate goal, and as long as we continually follow Him, we will eventually reach it, no matter how long it takes for us to get there. There are times when we feel that we have lost our path and strayed impossibly far away, but no matter how far we are away from that celestial mountain, God has a plan to get us there. He has our goal constantly in His sights, and He knows the path we need to follow to get to it. We may only be able to focus on one step at a time, but as we follow God, He can make sure those steps are getting us closer to where we ultimately want to be. We may or may not be able to keep our goal in our sights, but we can trust God's guidance, knowing that the goal is always in His.