Me: What are you looking at?

Prodigal: Looking upward.

This is from Oswald Chambers

Psalm 121 portrays the upward look: “I will lift up my eyes to the hills–from whence comes my help? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth” (verse 1). The upward look of a mature Christian is not to the mountains, but to the God who made the mountains. It is the maintained set of the highest powers of a man–not stargazing till he stumbles–but the upward gaze deliberately set toward God. He has got through the choppy waters of his elementary spiritual experience and now he is set God. “I have set the LORD always before me” (Psalm 16:8)–but you have to fight for it.

Then Jesus said to the man with the withered hand, “Stand up among us.” Mark 3:3 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

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