~ How Many Directions Are You Looking?
~
Backward Look (to
the Dying One) ~ “Look to Me, and be saved,
all you ends
of the earth! For I am God, and there is
no other. I have sworn by Myself;
the word has
gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return,
that to Me
every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath. He shall say, ‘Surely in the Lord I have righteousness and strength. To Him men shall come, and all shall be ashamed
who are
incensed against Him. In the Lord all the
descendants of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory’” (Isaiah
45:22-25).
Upward Look (the
Living One) ~ “Therefore we also,
since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with
endurance the race that is set before us, 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 has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:1-2).
Forward Look (to
the Coming One) ~ “For the grace of
God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying
ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly
in the present age, looking for the
blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and
purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works” (Titus
2:11-14).
~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW
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