Your eyes move faster than any other muscle group in your body. Each shift in gaze—called a saccade—lasts only milliseconds. Yet in that time, six tiny muscles surrounding each eyeball contract in complex coordination to point both eyes at the same target.

That’s not easy. These muscles aren’t just moving in one direction; they’re balancing rotational force, managing speed, and compensating for the slightest head movement. Your brain performs calculations in real time—adjusting even for things you’re not aware of, like pressure changes or muscle fatigue.

When something goes wrong—like with vestibular neuritis, a condition that affects balance—the coordination can fall apart. The eyes may drift or lag, making the world seem like it’s bouncing or spinning. Tests like the head impulse test can reveal delayed correction, as the brain struggles to command the eyes to lock onto a target.

Still, most of the time, your eyes get it exactly right—hundreds of thousands of times a day. That kind of precision points to deliberate design, not random chance.

Hebrews 12:2 (NWT) urges us to keep “our eyes fixed on Jesus.” In a spiritual sense, we need the same rapid correction—adjusting for distractions, anchoring on truth, compensating for internal or external motion. Like our literal eyes, we don’t stare blankly—we lock on.

And we keep refocusing until our vision holds.