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Day 6: Look Up

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How do you STAND FIRM,

 when you feel so WOBBLY,

because of what you SEE and HEAR

is not what you want to SEE and HEAR?

Do you get ANGRY?

Do you get FRUSTRATED?

Do you get so SAD, that you feel HOPELESS?

How do you STAND FIRM when you feel so WOBBLY?

You LOOK UP!

 "So we look not at the things which are seen,

but at the things which are unseen;

for the things which are visible are

temporal [just brief and fleeting],

but the things which are invisible are everlasting and imperishable"

(2 Corinthians 4:18 AMP).

But is LOOKING UP

GIVING UP,

or is GIVING UP

LOOKING UP?

"So we’re not giving up. How could we!

Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us,

on the inside, where GOD is making new life,

not a day goes by without HIS unfolding grace.

 These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times,

the lavish celebration prepared for us.

There’s far more here than meets the eye.

 The things we see now are here today,

 gone tomorrow.

 But the things we can’t see now will last forever"

(2 Corinthians 4:16-18 MSG).

How do you STAND FIRM,

 when you feel so WOBBLY,

because of what you SEE and HEAR

is not what you want to SEE and HEAR?

 "...for we walk by faith,

not by

sight [living our lives in a manner consistent

with our confident BELIEF in GOD'S promises]"

(2 Corinthians 5:6-7).

Sounds so simple in such a complicated world,

but is it really that complicated

to have FAITH,

to have a CONFIDENT BELIEF IN GOD'S PROMISES?

FAITH SEES what GOD SEES.

And what GOD SEES is way better than what we SEE.

GOD SEES the end of the story

that was written on the CROSS

by HIS SON~

"IT IS FINISHED".

What is IT.

THE PROMISE of ALL PROMISES

because of

JESUS!

One day there will be

No more tears.

No more sorrow.

No more pain.

No more anger.

No more frustration.

 No more injustice.

No more __________!

IT is a FOREVER PROMISE~

"HE will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be death; there will no longer be sorrow and anguish, or crying, or pain; for the former order of things has passed away"

(Revelation 21:4)

So I ask you,

How do you STAND FIRM

 when you feel so WOBBLY,

because of what you SEE and HEAR

is not what you want to SEE and HEAR?

You LOOK UP~

"... [looking away from all that will distract us and] focusing our eyes on JESUS, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith [the first incentive for our belief and the ONE who brings our faith to maturity], who for the joy [of accomplishing the goal] set before HIM endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of GOD [revealing HIS deity, HIS authority, and the completion of HIS work]"...

STANDING FIRM never felt so good,

therefore

"...let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us"

(Hebrews 12:1-2),

and just

LOOK UP

and

"TURN YOUR EYES"

(listen to the song below)


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