Turn your eyes upon Jesus

Turn your eyes upon Jesus

November 12, 2008

Many people today are searching for the right way. I am here to tell you that Jesus is truly the only way! Turn your eyes upon Jesus! Look full in His wonderful face, as I was thinking of this song the other day during my quiet time I could not help but think about what it means to “look full in His wonderful face”. Jesus has a way of changing the way that we see things! When we turn our eyes on Jesus, it helps us to…

Keep our eyes off SELF

Scripture teaches us to “Trust in the Lord with all you heart, and lean not on your own understanding! In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your path”. When our eyes are on Jesus we cannot concentrate on the problems and situations that seem to develop around us. To experience true peace and joy, we are going to have to turn our eyes on Jesus! We are going to have to focus on what He wants, not what we want! When we look at self, we internalize. It becomes easy to be selfish, and think solely on our own issues. We need to be selfless, thinking of others…We need to be imitators of Christ! Our lives need to reflect Christ!

The bible teaches us to Love God and Love people! Scripture also teaches us not to think to highly of ourselves. We need to trust God, He knows us, the bible says “Lord you have searched me and know me…” We have to turn our eyes toward Jesus and keep our eyes off self! Think about this, if you merely pretend that you enjoy God or love Him…He knows. You cannot fool Him. He knows exactly how you feel about Him. Many people try and make a big deal about their relationship with God and unfortunately the relationship is sham! We are going to talk most about the object of our affection. Can I ask you a question? What are you talking about?

Tell God how you feel! We sometimes get so caught up in self, that we think that the same God that created the heavens and earth cannot deal with our little problems. Can I remind you, He is God and He can deal with anything. If we turn our eyes on Jesus, we are going to have to stop lying to Him and telling everyone that He is the most important thing in our lives and make Him the most important thing. It will require change; following Jesus will cost you everything. Is it a price that you are willing to pay?

We need to get real, and realize that He already knows how we truly feel about Him. He is God! So today, if we were to turn our eyes upon Jesus, many would have to apologize for the way that they have treated Him! He knows, and I believe that He wants to be in a real relationship with all of us. I believe that revival could breakout if we simply would trust instead of acting like we trust! If we turn our eyes upon Jesus, we are going to Keep our eyes of self. If we turn our eyes upon Jesus, we are going to…

Keep your eyes off STUFF/SIN

The Bible teaches us to flee…to run away…“Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith love and peace along with all those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.” (2nd Timothy 2:22) The Bible also teaches us “Therefore submit to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7) Turn your eyes upon Jesus…keep your eyes off the stuff, the sin that so easily entangles us. Think about it, we are all capable of doing wrong. For all have sinned…we all fall way short of the Glory of God!

Flee from youthful passions. Some scholars believe that Timothy was around 40 years old when Paul wrote this letter. Forty years old in 21st century America is not exactly what most would call youthful! The older I get, the more I like being considered youthful. Pursuits of passion pursuits of pleasure or power are things the Bible warns us that we are to flee from. We are to flee, to run…to get out of dodge! We are to

Pursue righteousness
Pursue faith
Pursue love
Pursue peace

We can turn our eyes on Jesus when we keep our eyes off stuff. We can keep our eyes off sin when we pursue God with a pure heart! God also wants us to…

Keep your eyes off SITUATIONS



We are to turn our eyes upon Jesus, and keep our eyes off of situations. So many times situations dictate our response. We are to always be ready to give an account for the hope that we have. How do we do this? By turning our eyes on Jesus, and keeping our eyes of the situation. So many times we get caught up with all that is going on, and we fail to wait on God. Many times, God may be trying to direct us, but because our vision is so clouded by the situation that we cannot see or hear how to overcome. Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face…and the things of this world will go strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace…

I envisioned this the other day. I thought about the words, and I began to focus on Jesus…and guess what? The things in the periphery, the things going on around me became strangely dim. I could focus on my Lord. The white noise of life was overcome!

Turn your eyes on Jesus today! I love you all!