The Direction of Our Gaze

What do we mean when we claim to be worshippers of God? It would be beneficial to examine our hearts along with the Lord. We should stop often and get down on our knees. Ask God how sincere we are with our faith. Talk it over with Him. Sit in His presence until He has revealed how much of our hearts we are offering to Him. Turn our attention in God´s direction until we know what it is that we focus on in our lives. Making a habit of being this directed toward the Lord will bring us the answers our hearts need to hear. Focusing our gaze on God is no accident. We must learn, but we can soon become experts.

Dear Lord, there is nothing sweeter or more wonderful than You. Drawing near You is the best thing we can do today, any day, or every day. Let it become the leaning of our hearts. Whenever we get the chance, let us look for You. Make us experts in finding You. When we come, let us linger. Give our hearts unrest when they are anywhere else. For us, Lord, set our gaze on You. And let us turn to You increasingly more each day. Amen

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.” Joshua 24:15 (WEB)

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

2 Peter 3:9 ESV The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

John 6:44 ESV No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 12:32 ESV And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

John 1:12 ESV But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Ephesians 2:3 ESV Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Ephesians 2:1 ESV And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

Ephesians 1:11 ESV In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,