Where Are You Looking

Hebrews 12:1-2 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Let’s see what crisis should we consider today? Should it be terrorism with its random threat? Maybe we should consider our economy and the fear we will run out of money before we run out of time? Global warming and climate change might a good way to start our day. How about some personal crisis that has no foreseeable short term solution? Should we consider something we have absolutely no control over like the weather? We all get up every morning and do what---turn on the morning news to see what crisis we need to start our day off with and worry about.
Before we fall under the weight of our accumulated fears, we should do well to look at a woman who endured the hell of Nazi concentration camps, watched just how inhumane man can be to man. Lived in a place where hope for most people was lost. I’m talking about Corrie ten Boom. Her life was hell on earth for a time yet she survived to tell her story and to be a blessing to others. Hers was an unfaltering faith and tight-fisted hope in God. She saw the devil close up and personal. When she came out of it all she wrote, “If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ you, you’ll be at rest.”
Where are we looking? Are we focusing on the world and its dangers? Maybe we are gazing at ourselves and hoping to find our own answers to solve all our problems. We should be looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.
Psalm 121:1-3, “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.”
So then we need not worry about things we cannot change, like world hunger, global warming, and the mess in DC. That is not to say these are important issues, but all those things are of this world and will be dealt with in due time. God looks at the heart of man and knows its condition and position. When God looks at your heart what does he see?
When your world is falling apart look to Jesus He will hold it together. We may not be long for this world but we can be assured we will spend eternity in the next. With Jesus we will be with Him in heaven, without him the bible says hell will be our world. To go to heaven you have to know Christ as savior to go the hell just forget about him all together. Where are you looking?