Divorce the World: Gaze on Jesus

Gazing on Jesus pulls us out of the world and the laces us in the throne room of heaven. You can call this whatever you’d like—turn your eyes on Jesus, look to Jesus, behold, meditate, etc. I use “gazing on Jesus” because Psalm 27 says, “to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord” in my chosen translation. Whatever you call it, it is the part(s) of our day when we stop and look with our spiritual eyes, or meditate, on who God is and who he says we are, on his attributes, on the King and activity of the kingdom of heaven.

Here I Am: Ananias

I pray you see the relationship to be had between Jesus and his disciples as you consider Acts 9. The grandness that is held in our ‘Here I am’ response to the Lord. It’s not an autopilot lip service. It’s a live reaction to a very live God, and it’s full of awe and things we couldn’t possible make up on our own.

Here I Am: Jacob

The response “here I am” occurs six times in the Bible from man to God. Five separate times it is men responding to God who is calling their names. The other occurrence is an answer to a question posed by God. Each response is followed by at interaction with the LORD and an invitation to be about kingdom business. And each response leads to seeing the Lord and just how magnificent he is.