Mea e ;ai e tatau ma le aso
“Look to Me, and be saved ” (Isaiah 45:22).
This morning as we await a tropical storm moving slowly towards us, some 200 miles south east of the Samoan Archepelago. With it's immensity and intensity building up, all you could do is prepare your household from harms way and pray this passes over and away from us. Your faith in the saving grace of Jesus Christ our Lord is surely again put to the test.
Do we expect God to come to us with His blessings and save us? Jesus simply says, “Look to Me, and be saved .” The greatest difficulty spiritually is to concentrate on God at a time like this, but His blessings are what make it so difficult. Troubled times almost always make you look to God, but His blessings tend to divert our attention elsewhere. You wonder, how can a loving God allow this to happen and put so many in harms way?
The basic lesson of the Sermon on the Mount is to narrow all your interests, and questions until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ. “Look to Me .”
Many of us have a mental picture of what a Christian should be during times of trouble, and looking at this image in other Christians’ lives becomes a hindrance to our focusing on God. He says, in effect, “Look to Me and you are saved,” not “You will be saved someday.” We will find comfort in what we are looking for if we will just concentrate on Him.
When storms come into our lives we get distracted from God and irritable with Him, while He continues to say to us, “Look to Me, and be saved .” Our difficulties, our trials, and our worries about tomorrow all vanish when we look to God.
Let us awake and look to God. Build your faith and hope on Him. No matter how heavy the storms in our lives seem to be pressing in on you, be determined to put troubles aside and look to Him. In the book of Mark 4:39 , Jesus demonstrated to the troubled and faithless desciples "And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."
Jesus says, "Look to me" Salvation is yours the moment you look.
Ia manuia,
failauga p. anoa'i
“Look to Me, and be saved ” (Isaiah 45:22).
This morning as we await a tropical storm moving slowly towards us, some 200 miles south east of the Samoan Archepelago. With it's immensity and intensity building up, all you could do is prepare your household from harms way and pray this passes over and away from us. Your faith in the saving grace of Jesus Christ our Lord is surely again put to the test.
Do we expect God to come to us with His blessings and save us? Jesus simply says, “Look to Me, and be saved .” The greatest difficulty spiritually is to concentrate on God at a time like this, but His blessings are what make it so difficult. Troubled times almost always make you look to God, but His blessings tend to divert our attention elsewhere. You wonder, how can a loving God allow this to happen and put so many in harms way?
The basic lesson of the Sermon on the Mount is to narrow all your interests, and questions until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ. “Look to Me .”
Many of us have a mental picture of what a Christian should be during times of trouble, and looking at this image in other Christians’ lives becomes a hindrance to our focusing on God. He says, in effect, “Look to Me and you are saved,” not “You will be saved someday.” We will find comfort in what we are looking for if we will just concentrate on Him.
When storms come into our lives we get distracted from God and irritable with Him, while He continues to say to us, “Look to Me, and be saved .” Our difficulties, our trials, and our worries about tomorrow all vanish when we look to God.
Let us awake and look to God. Build your faith and hope on Him. No matter how heavy the storms in our lives seem to be pressing in on you, be determined to put troubles aside and look to Him. In the book of Mark 4:39 , Jesus demonstrated to the troubled and faithless desciples "And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."
Jesus says, "Look to me" Salvation is yours the moment you look.
Ia manuia,
failauga p. anoa'i
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