Fix your eyes on Jesus and not on yourself

You get no forgiveness from just looking at all your sins. You get no healing, just concentrating on your diseases. You get no redemption, just studying the pit you're in. You get no crowning with glory, just fixing your eyes on your failures. You get no fulfillment of desires, just looking at all you don't have. You get no renewal from focusing on your oldness, staleness, dryness. Only He "forgives all [your] sins . . . heals all [your diseases . . . redeems [your life from the pit . . . crowns [you] with love and compassion . . . satisfies [your] desires with good things, so that [your] youth is renewed like the eagle's" (Psalm 103:3-5). Only He! Look to yourself, and ultimately you'll be embarrassed. But Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame (Psalm 34:5). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let's pray: Lord, I'm ready to be radiant. You know my battle! You know how often my attention is on myself. Then I'm shut up, as Malcolm Muggeridge says, in the dark prison of my own ego. Lord Jesus, I fix my eyes on You. I come out into radiant sunshine; I'm walking in the light! But may my joy not be in the light as much as in You. For Your own dear sake, amen.