Luke 21:28
When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near." NIV
Bible teacher A. T. Pierson tells about a new convert to Christ who had a strange dream in which he was trapped at the bottom of a very deep well in the night. He looked up and saw a single star shining far above him, and it seemed to let down lines of silver light that took hold upon him and lifted him up.
Then he looked down, and he began to go down. He looked up, and he began to go up; he looked down, and he began to go down again. He found that by simply keeping his eye on that star, he rose out of the well until his foot stood on the firm ground.
The dream was a parable, said Dr. Pierson. “Get your eyes off yourself and on your Savior, get them off your disease and on your physician.… Now and here, turn your eyes to the Lord Jesus.”
“Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us,” Hudson Taylor once said, “but he can never roof us in so that we cannot look up.”
Even in our worst circumstances, nothing can prevent us from looking upon our Savior. The powers of darkness want to put a stop to it, but with God and His Heavenly Host, that is not possible. Be encouraged…
Heb 12:1-2
“… since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God."
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