Let your eyes look right on,
And let your eyelids look straight before you.
Ponder the path of your feet,
And let all your ways be established.
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left:
Remove your foot from evil.
It is not the mouth only that shows the state of the heart. The feat likewise will walk according to the condition of the soul.
Forgetting the things behind, we are exhorted to press on to the price of the calling of God on high.
The eye is to be fixed on the goal, looking straight before. For us, this is Christ. As the plowman cuts a straight furrow when the eye is on the distant point directly before him, so the Christian’s path will be that of the just, when the eye of the heart is fixed on the Lord Jesus, now ascended to glory.
But this involves likewise earnest concern about one’s ways, that all may be established in accordance with the truth.
Evil is to be judged and departed from, the foot turning neither to the right hand nor the left. The mind of God wants known is to be faithfully acted upon, irrespective of self-interest or the thoughts of others who discern it not. The walk with God necessarily means to be misjudged and misunderstood by unspiritual persons who are ignorant of the power of God and the value of His truth. But if one has His approbation, there need be no consulting with flesh and blood, but implicit obedience to what He has said in His Word.
(Commentary by H.A. Ironside)