Oswald Chambers – My Utmost for His Highest – Wednesday, 22
January 2014 “What Am I Looking At?”
Look unto Me, and be ye saved. (Isaiah 45:22)
Do we expect God to come to us with His blessings and save us?
He says – 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 – Narrow all
your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration
on Jesus Christ. "Look unto Me."
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. "Look unto
Me" and – not "you will be saved," but "you are saved."
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 – "Look up
and be saved." The difficulties and trials – the casting about in our
minds as to what we shall do this summer, or to-morrow, all vanish when we look
to God.
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. "Look unto Me," and salvation is, the
moment you look.
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