Aligning Your Focus!

I was reading through half of 2 Samuel last night using my Chronological Study Bible along with some Psalm and 1 Chronicles mixed with 2 Samuel. Here is what I found that profoundly impressed me and now I so love Asahel!

2 Samuel 2: 18-23:

18 The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai and Asahel. Now Asahel was as fleet-footed as a wild gazelle. 19 He chased Abner, turning neither to the right nor to the left as he pursued him. 20 Abner looked behind him and asked, "Is that you, Asahel?"
"It is," he answered.
21 Then Abner said to him, "Turn aside to the right or to the left; take on one of the young men and strip him of his weapons." But Asahel would not stop chasing him.
22 Again Abner warned Asahel, "Stop chasing me! Why should I strike you down? How could I look your brother Joab in the face?"
23 But Asahel refused to give up the pursuit; so Abner thrust the butt of his spear into Asahel's stomach, and the spear came out through his back. He fell there and died on the spot. And every man stopped when he came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died.

Here is what I love most about him... is that he abides by Isaiah 30:21, "Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it."... he didn't turn to either left or right for security. He kept his focus onto Abner, onto victory!That's who we should be like! Yeah Asahel died, but he didn't die in vain. He died with dignity because he didn't go neither right nor left.

As we know, Peter lost his focus when he turned his head to what is around him and saw that he is in danger and indeed he is because he had lost his focus! So Jesus had to pull him out of water and say, "You of little faith!". Do we want to lost our focus like Peter due to the circumstance around us? Or do we want to be like Asahel who kept his focus no matter what circumstance come in front of him and let Him be the Judge? Tough call!