MORNING MANNA 7-14-21
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; ..”Heb. 12:2
Remember the old saying, “You can blot out the sun with a penny, if you hold it close enough to your eye”? Well I can think of something even more serious and sad. You can blot out the SON with 1001 things if you focus on them. It happens all the time. Rather than “Looking unto Jesus” as we’re told to do in Heb. 12:2 we shift our focus to things that are of no spiritual benefit. What fools we are! The one thing above everything that we need to do is neglected, to our great peril, because we are focused on the things of the world. Such a distraction is sinful–even if the object in view is sinless. Indeed there are things, serious things, that deserve our attention, but never to the extent that it blots out the Son.
Truth be known, many people have given more attention to the upcoming elections than they do to the One who is truly able to affect their outcome. They are so concerned about the possible changes the election will make that they’ve lost sight of the personal changes they need to make. They have spoken about the candidates a hundred times more than they have to or about Jesus. Think about it. More than 15,000 die each day– more than 4 1/2 million every month, the large majority of which are unsaved, and you told __? about Jesus. Really? We ought to be ashamed of ourselves.
We are so worried about who will win the election, World Series, Super Bowl, etc. that we take no time to tell the lost about Christ. And we keep talking about all the things that are wrong with the world. Seems like we’ve got more than a few things in our lives that need to be changed. Make no mistake about it, Satan is a master at deception and he will use anything to cause us to blot out the Son and fail in our God-given mission. Andrew Murray said, “There are two classes of Christians, soul winners and backsliders”. Which are you? I know, that sounds pretty harsh, but we need something to open our eyes. If we fail to keep our eyes on Jesus we will fail in life. – HDS , 7-30-16
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
