Hi how are you all today? I am well and had another busy weekend full of appointments, family visits, chores and church. How was your weekend?
This week I want to blog about fixing our eyes on Jesus. It is so easy living in the world we do, to fix our eyes on other things. Maybe you are fixing your eyes on fashion and making sure you dress just right. Nothing wrong with looking nice but not at the expense of obsessing over it.
One of my sons has his eyes fixed on sport. Maybe you do too. Watching and playing sport is okay as long as it is not first place in front of Jesus.
Maybe it is social media. If you don’t have enough followers maybe you feel inadequate. Just be careful that our eyes are not fixed on that so it becomes an idol.
We can see that fixing our eyes can lead to addiction, idolatry and putting something or even someone, like a famous person, above God. That is not healthy for us or helpful especially if we have given our lives to Jesus.
I love what Romans 12: 1 and 2 states in the Message Bible. Every time I read this passage it speaks to me.
It states:
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
So how do we fix our eyes on Jesus? These verses tell us. We need to take our ordinary everyday life and give it to God as an offering. Each day is a new day with new mercies (Lamentations 3:22) and a new day means we have a new opportunity to do what God says. What if our ordinary day turns into a testimony for God? What if how we live our ordinary day with our eyes on Jesus leads someone to Him? Each day should be an adventure- what is God going to show me today or do through me today? Like our church mission is – to influence our world for good and for God. What if I and you kept that mantra forefront of our minds?
The next part is what trips us up all the time. What we see around us – the culture of the world and trying to fit in and adjust to it is sometimes what we focus on. But this will lead to us taking our eyes off Jesus and will severely limit what God wants to achieve through us.
The last part of that verse gives us the reason to fix our eyes on Jesus – so we can become mature in Him. In 2023 God is looking to reveal His sons and daughters to the world. But it won’t happen unless we fix our eyes on Him.
So this week let’s remind ourselves to continually fix our eyes on Jesus. Your ordinary life and the world around you will never be the same.
Bless you and keep living the life God intended for you.
Karen
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