Saturday, December 17, 2016

TURN YOUR EYES UPON JESUS

When God led the Israelites out of Egypt He allowed them to bring the silver and gold jewelry that they had plundered.  These are the very things they used to make the golden calf that very much displeased God, which would be a pattern that God’s people followed throughout God’s Story recorded in the Bible, and continues today.  We take the very things that God gives us and make idols out of them.

When we come to the final Promise Land, the proverbial “You can’t take it with you” will apply.  We came naked into this world and we will enter the next one naked as well.  But, as always with God, that is the best thing for us.  More than not the things we treasure here on earth are the very things that cause our earthly tears, mourning, pain, and death.  These will not be in heaven.  They are the former things that will pass away at our death and indeed are passing away even now.

The words to the song, “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” are significant to me these days.
                        “Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face.
                         And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
                          In the light of His glory and grace.”

When I look at Jesus face to face He becomes my only focus.  All else passes away like the flowers of the field and all that is flesh.  There will be no idols or potential idols in heaven…Simply Him.

Things are being stripped from me as I speak.  My body is deteriorating, relatives and friends are dying, things that seemed so very important are becoming insignificant, depths of meanings that I put into people, places, and possessions are fading away, losing their meaning to me.

The one thing that is growing and fulfilling me now is His Presence.  My love, peace, and joy are found only in Him.  I still have love for others but it is free of the attachment I used to put to it because I know there is a shelf live to it all.  It is no longer the main stay of who I am.  God’s love is given freely with none of the proverbial strings attached, and oh how freeing that is in my love for Him, my love for myself, and my love for others.

The free gift from God is found lying in the manger.  It is there for the receiving and believing of anyone and everyone who opens their hearts, minds, and souls.  Behold, what manner of love God bestows on us?  He is the God I can attach my love and life to…Forever!




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