“I have set the LORD always before me;
 Because He is at my right hand I shall not be shaken.”  Psalm 16:8

There is a chorus of a hymn that we sing in our Fellowship and I thinks it is sung in many others as well that says,
“Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
 Look full in His wonderful face;
 And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
   In the light of His glory and grace.”

We change that first line to say ‘Keep your eyes upon Jesus!’  
I believe that the Psalmist is saying that he has set his heart on keeping his eyes on the LORD.  It is a settled issue.  The LORD is God and he has put his trust in Him.
(With all the chaos in the world right now, I sense that is what we need to do steadfastly.) 

Daniel is one who was committed in his heart,
“But Daniel purposed [determined] in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the King’s meat, nor with the wine…”  
Daniel 1:8 
He kept the LORD and the commandments of the LORD before Him and this was at great risk.

Then there is Moses who,
“Considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of  Egypt; for he was looking to the reward.
 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; he endured, as seeing Him who is unseen.”  Hebrews 11:26-27

Psalm 27 tells us of the fearless trust in God.  (Read it all an be blessed.)
In verse 8 God Himself tells us to seek His face,
“When You said, ‘Seek My face’, 
 My heart said to You, ‘Your face, LORD, I will seek.”

When we seek to know Christ in a greater measure, the Holy Spirit is right there to teach us.  Scripture tells us that He will lead us into all truth.
Hallelujah!  We need not be unknowing, but knowing!

Are you seeing in these few verses that keeping our focus on the Lord is a heart commitment?

Jesus tells us in Matthew 6:22-24,
“The lamp of the body is the eye.  If therefore your eye is good (clear), your whole body will be full of light.
 But if your eye bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other.  You cannot serve God and mammon.”

Where is our focus?!
When it is settled in our heart that: 
Christ is Lord and King, 
that He is in control,
that the things that come into our lives are not a surprise to Him,
that He goes through the valleys with us,
that He loves us beyond measure,
that everything about us is of vital concern to Him--
WHEN His face is ever before us,
THEN the things of earth do grow strangely dim in the lit of His glory and grace!

All praise, honor and glory to Christ Jesus our Lord!  Amen