Looking only at Jesus

Are you distracted and disrupted by the problems around you? Do they capture your attention and divert your focus? Where should our gaze be fixed instead?

Every entrance into a new year comes with some understandable concerns about what we may encounter. Regarding the current tumult in the world around us, we face the prospect that instead of calming down, it may increase in intensity. As unsettling as that may be, there is a solution for us. We find our stability by looking only at Jesus.

Fixing Our Gaze On Him

The writer of the first two verses in Hebrews 12 reminds us of the only way we can strip away all the distractions of normal life to effectively "run with endurance the race that is set before us." Verse 2 tells us: "looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Just as our Lord and Savior maintained His focus to be victorious, you and I must be looking only at Jesus.

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