January 22 What Am I Looking At?<\/p>\n
\u201cLook unto Me, and be ye saved.\u201d Isaiah 45:22<\/p>\n
Do we expect God to come to us with His blessings and save us? He says \u2013 Look unto Me, and be saved. The great difficulty spiritually is to concentrate on God, and it is His blessings that make it difficult. Troubles nearly always make us look to God; His blessings are apt to make us look elsewhere. The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is, in effect \u2013 Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ. \u201cLook unto Me.\u201d <\/p>\n
Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God. There is no salvation in this way, it is not simple enough. \u201cLook unto Me\u201d and \u2013 not \u201cyou will be saved,\u201d but \u201cyou are saved.\u201d The very thing we look for, we shall find if we will concentrate on Him. We get preoccupied and sulky with God, while all the time He is saying \u2013 \u201cLook up and be saved.\u201d The difficulties and trials \u2013 the casting about in our minds as to what we shall do this summer, or to-morrow, all vanish when we look to God. <\/p>\n
Rouse yourself up and look to God. Build your hope on Him. No matter if there are a hundred and one things that press, resolutely exclude them all and look to Him. \u201cLook unto Me,\u201d and salvation is, the moment you look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
January 22 What Am I Looking At?<\/p>\n
\u201cLook unto Me, and be ye saved.\u201d Isaiah 45:22<\/p>\n
Do we expect God to come to us with His blessings and save us? He says \u2013 Look unto Me, and be saved. The great difficulty spiritually is to concentrate on God, and it is His blessings that make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-43044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utmost","tag-my-utmost-for-his-highest","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}