FIXING OUR EYES ON JESUS! Fixing Our Eyes On Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith! Hebrews 12:2 This is how we am justified and forgiven. Not by the hopeless endeavor to win and fight our way to the favor of God and the Celestial City--but by looking to Jesus … JESUS ONLY , and by leaning on Him ABSOLUTELY. Nothing in my hands I bring, Simply to Your cross I cling! This is how we find assurance. When tossed with tempest, overcast with doubt, haunted with fear--while scrutinize by our own frames and feelings. But when we fix our gaze steadfastly on Him, so all-sufficient, so perfect--the morning awakens and the shadows decay; behold, the winter is past, and the flowers appear! For our own comfort, we would see Him as a glorious Sun filling my sky. This is how we grow holy. While indeed we our bidden work out my own salvation with fear and trembling, it must not be as if everything depended on us. It must rather be by a perpetual faith in Him, and a perpetual prayer to Him, who works in us to will and to do according to His good purpose! The battle is not ours, but His. He sows the seed He ripens the harvest He lays the foundation He puts the top-stone in its fitting place. This is how we shall be glorified in the end. Self will have vanished in the better country, and Christ will be ALL! We shall follow the Lamb wherever He goes. We shall find our safety We shall find our peace We shall find our victory--in keeping very close to Him. He will be familiar, and yet He will be new every morning. We shall discover in Him a subject of study, and wonder, and worship, and love--which is illimitable and unfathomable! Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith! Hebrews 12:2 Feel free to forward this grace gem to others who may be encouraged or profited by it!
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:38:11 +0000