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What are you lookin' at?
- Mar 16, 2009 at 1:32 PM
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Isaiah 45:22 says, "Look to Me, and be saved..."
What
are you looking at this morning? I know I started out looking at the
mess I had to clean, the school work yet to complete, the bills I'm not
sure how we're going to pay, and the dreary rain out the window. It's
no wonder I was feeling self-pity and discouragement. No where does God
tell us to look at our problems and become frustrated. No, He bids us
to look at Him and see our salvation.
When
I look to God, truly look at God, I can see naught but His glory. It
makes everything else fade and realigns my priorities. I am overcome by
His grace, and that fact that as whiny, self-pitying, and obstinate as
I can be, He still calls me His Beloved. I look at my sin, which
overwhelms me on a daily basis, and bask in His mercy.
Suddenly,
all of the things I saw when I got out of bed this morning were reduced
to a part of life, and my focus became His love. When I look at God, I
understand His greatness. When I look at God, I am touched by His love.
When I look at God, I am changed in His glory. When I look at God, my
heart begins to look more like His.
It is time to be more intentional with how I live; to look -intentionally- at God and the gift of salvation, before
I look anywhere else or at anything else. To pray, to listen, to seek,
to meditate on the "things above, not on things below" and to know Him
"in the power of his resurrection" and the "fullness of his glory."
What are you looking at today?
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Comments:
Very well said. It's so easy to get overwhelmed with the tasks and chores of day-to-day life that we ignore the important things which will ultimately make those things more manageable.
I love this ♥ Thank You for sharing the sunshine of wisdom =)
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