Word for Today, Thu, 22, Jan 2009: What Am I Looking At?

#1 · January 22, 2009, 8:55 am

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Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>

Dear friends,    Today's message comes from the archives of Oswald Chambers, one of the writers who urges us to "look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith".    12:1 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,    12:2 - Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him  endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.   (Hebrews 12:1-2, King James Version).    My prayer today is that each of us would examine ourselves, realize our need, and turn to Jesus, aware of the sin in our lives that so easily captures and snares us.  Let's take heed of what the Bible says and take action, seeking the One who saves us from our lost and fallen state and restores us into intimate fellowship with the One who created us, loves us, and sustains us.    Yours in Christ,  Brian    -//-----------------------------------------------------------------     /  MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST    --     http://www.heartlight.org/  --/------------------------------------------------------------------                                     January 22, 2009      WHAT AM I LOOKING AT?         Look unto Me, and be ye saved.         Isaiah 14:22       http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=isa+14:22&sr=1    Do we expect God to come to us with His blessings and save us? He  says - Look unto Me, and be saved. The great difficulty spiritually  is to concentrate on God, and it is His blessings that make it  difficult. Troubles nearly always make us look to God; His blessings  are apt to make us look elsewhere. The teaching of the Sermon on the  Mount is, in effect - Narrow all your interests until the attitude of  mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ. "Look unto  Me."    Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be,  and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration  on God. There is no salvation in this way, it is not simple enough.  "Look unto Me" and - not "you will be saved," but "you are saved."  The very thing we look for, we shall find if we will concentrate on  Him. We get preoccupied and sulky with God, while all the time He is  saying - "Look up and be saved." The difficulties and trials - the  casting about in our minds as to what we shall do this summer, or  to-morrow, all vanish when we look to God.    Rouse yourself up and look to God. Build your hope on Him. No matter  if there are a hundred and one things that press, resolutely exclude  them all and look to Him. "Look unto Me," and salvation is, the  moment you look.     MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST - by Oswald Chambers                //  ===============================================================  /===   http://www.heartlight.org/devotionals/my_utmost                /    This devotional is copyright Oswald Chambers Publications,   < http://www.oswaldchambers.co.uk >.

Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>

Dear friends,    Today's message comes from the archives of Oswald Chambers, one of the writers who urges us to "look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith".    12:1 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,    12:2 - Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him  endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.   (Hebrews 12:1-2, King James Version).    My prayer today is that each of us would examine ourselves, realize our need, and turn to Jesus, aware of the sin in our lives that so easily captures and snares us.  Let's take heed of what the Bible says and take action, seeking the One who saves us from our lost and fallen state and restores us into intimate fellowship with the One who created us, loves us, and sustains us.    Yours in Christ,  Brian    -//-----------------------------------------------------------------     /  MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST    --     http://www.heartlight.org/  --/------------------------------------------------------------------                                     January 22, 2009      WHAT AM I LOOKING AT?         Look unto Me, and be ye saved.         Isaiah 14:22       http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=isa+14:22&sr=1    Do we expect God to come to us with His blessings and save us? He  says - Look unto Me, and be saved. The great difficulty spiritually  is to concentrate on God, and it is His blessings that make it  difficult. Troubles nearly always make us look to God; His blessings  are apt to make us look elsewhere. The teaching of the Sermon on the  Mount is, in effect - Narrow all your interests until the attitude of  mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ. "Look unto  Me."    Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be,  and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration  on God. There is no salvation in this way, it is not simple enough.  "Look unto Me" and - not "you will be saved," but "you are saved."  The very thing we look for, we shall find if we will concentrate on  Him. We get preoccupied and sulky with God, while all the time He is  saying - "Look up and be saved." The difficulties and trials - the  casting about in our minds as to what we shall do this summer, or  to-morrow, all vanish when we look to God.    Rouse yourself up and look to God. Build your hope on Him. No matter  if there are a hundred and one things that press, resolutely exclude  them all and look to Him. "Look unto Me," and salvation is, the  moment you look.     MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST - by Oswald Chambers                //  ===============================================================  /===   http://www.heartlight.org/devotionals/my_utmost                /    This devotional is copyright Oswald Chambers Publications,   < http://www.oswaldchambers.co.uk >.