SHORTSIGHTEDNESS Life is extremely affected by the “distance” of our vision! Those who neglect to “add to your faith, virtue; and to your virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience; and to patience brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love..” Are “blind, seeing only what is near”. (2 Pet 1) Uniformly, the voice of scripture says, “look beyond…” Jesus did: “who, for the joy set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of God”. (Heb 12:2) Moses did (Heb 11:26)..”he had respect to the recompense of the reward.” Paul did (Philippians 3:13 “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” And so should we! 1 Peter 1:6 “Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:” 2 Corinthians 4:17 “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” (acb)
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:16:10 +0000
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