Looking Unto Jesus
Do you ever have this
thought come into your mind - "You are not REALLY saved" or do you
ever do something that you know you should not do, but you give in to the flesh
and speak a word, or do an action that you know grieves the Spirit within? Do you ever, at that time, feel very away
from our heavenly Father?
Brother or sister,
those are attacks of the evil one..the one who tempts you where he knows you
are weakest.. the one who urges you to not be an overcomer, but to give in to
his temptation.
Looking Unto Jesus - from Morning Devotions
by C.H. Spurgeon
It is ever the Holy
Spirit's work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan's work is
just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard
ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, "Your sins are too great for
pardon; you have no faith; you do not repent enough; you will never be able to
continue to the end; you have not the joy of his children; you have such a
wavering hold of Jesus." All these are thoughts about self, and we shall
never find comfort or assurance by looking within.
But the Holy Spirit
turns our eyes entirely away from self: he tells us that we are nothing, but
that "Christ is all in all." Remember, therefore, it is not thy hold
of Christ that saves thee-it is Christ; it is not thy joy in Christ that saves
thee-it is Christ; it is not even faith in Christ, though that be the
instrument-it is Christ's blood and merits; therefore, look not so much to thy
hand with which thou art grasping Christ, as to Christ; look not to thy hope,
but to Jesus, the source of thy hope; look not to thy faith, but to Jesus, the
author and finisher of thy faith. We shall never find happiness by looking at
our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are,
that gives rest to the soul. If we would at once overcome Satan and have peace
with God, it must be by "looking unto Jesus." Keep thine eye simply
on him; let his death, his sufferings, his merits, his glories, his
intercession, be fresh upon thy mind; when thou wakest in the morning look to
him; when thou liest down at night look to him. Oh! let not thy hopes or fears
come between thee and Jesus; follow hard after him, and he will never fail
thee.
(added)
Hebrews 1-2 "........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.
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