We must focus our eyes, attention, desires, wants, needs, etc. Christ Jesus, our Messiah, Redeemer and Lord is the expressed image of God. Only lives that are focused on Christ that can know God. It is in only in Christ that we are able to see God and know Him for who He is. It is only in Christ that we are able to have a clear picture of God. This requires personal, spiritual focus – it is something for which each of us must strive. It is absolutely essential that as believers we set aside all that would distract our heart and eyes, and focus on God. Jesus wants to reveal himself to you, where you are in your own personal world live in you and through you, as you focus your eyes and life upon Him. Real men throughout thousands of years wrote what we know as the Bible, as God was revealed in their lives as they sought Him and focused their lives on Him. His message continues to be relevant in the 21st century. That was the message then, and that is the message now. Focusing all eyes onto a loving God was the only means to salvage a lost and dying world. Jesus was bringing focus to a God who sent His son to die and pay the penalty for our sins that we might be redeemed. His focus was to bring salvation to the lost. His miracles were to show the love of God to those in need. His message was to show God’s grace and compassion to a lost world. He spoke of the good news and preached that the kingdom of God was at hand. He is our preservation and we must depend upon Jesus, and trust in Him for protection and defense.įocus on Jesus – Jesus said, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father.” He came to save a lost and dying world entrapped and enslaved by the curse of sin. He will supply all our needs, bear all our sorrows, and comfort all our burdens. We can depend upon Him as our Savior laying all our problems and stress upon His redemptive grace, relying on His righteousness for our justification and atonement. We can depend on the faithfulness of God to make them good and to perform them in our lives. ![]() The covenant of God performed in Christ Jesus and the promises delivered by His blood are powerful, firm and sure. ![]() Nothing can separate us from the covenant and promises of God. We must be rooted and grounded in Him be firmly persuaded of Him, knowing that nothing can separate us from Him. We must fix our eyes on Jesus- Fix our eyes on the love of God. We must not faint under trails, but believe and stand tall knowing that we are under the care of a wise and gracious Father, and that all things work for our spiritual good. Doubt makes us grow tired, but faith makes us grow tall. Many times weighed down by our struggles, we tend to grow tired and weary, and we began to doubt and grow faint under the affliction we endure. What are our little problems and trials compared to His agonies? What are our trials compared to eternity with Him? What are our trials compared to the hardships of many others? As we face hard times, we must steadfastly look to Jesus, keeping our thoughts on holy affections, in all things considering Him. When we are facing hardship and trails and grow weary, we must remember what Jesus suffered and endured for us to obtain mercy. ![]() His faith working in us will maintain and strengthen us that we finish the race and obtain Glory. Christ our Lord is our blessing of grace, empowering faith within us to believe upon Him, that we might obtain salvation and inherit eternal life. Our faith is in Him, through Him and by His spirit alive in us. His grace empowers faith within us by His power and omnipotence. In our carnal nature we are void of faith we do not possess the power within ourselves to have faith without him. Jesus is “the author and finisher of faith”. We are to always keep in remembrance how He persevered in His trials and what He endured all the way to the cross that we might inherit the holy covenant paid for with His blood. We must all be aware of the holy life that He lived. We as the redeemed must look unto Jesus keeping our hearts and minds stayed on Him. Hebrews 12:2 We must focus our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith Home › Comfort › Focus and Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus – Hebrews 12:2 -Inspirational Bible Versesįocus and Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus – Hebrews 12:2 -Inspirational Bible Verses
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