{"id":14310,"date":"2018-04-14T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=14310"},"modified":"2018-04-14T22:11:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T05:11:31","slug":"looking-unto-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2018\/04\/14\/looking-unto-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Unto Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hebrews 12:2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is ever the Holy Spirit&#8217;s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan&#8217;s work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, &#8216;Your sins are too great for pardon; you have no faith; you do not repent enough; you will never be able to continue to the end; you have not the joy of His children; you have such a wavering hold of Jesus.&#8217; All these are thoughts about self, and we shall never find comfort or assurance by looking within. But the Holy Spirit turns our eyes entirely away from self: He tells us that we are nothing, but that &#8216;Christ is all in all.&#8217; Remember, therefore, it is not <em>thy hold<\/em> of Christ that saves thee-it is Christ; it is not <em>thy joy<\/em> in Christ that saves thee-it is Christ; it is not even faith in Christ, though that be the instrument-it is Christ&#8217;s blood and merits; therefore, look not so much to thy hand with which thou art grasping Christ, as to Christ; look not to thy hope, but to Jesus, the source of thy hope; look not to thy faith, but to Jesus, the author and finisher of thy faith.<\/p>\n<p>We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what <em>Jesus<\/em> is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. If we would at once overcome Satan and have peace with God, it must be by &#8216;looking unto Jesus.&#8217; Keep thine eye simply on Him; let His death, His sufferings, His merits, His glories, His intercession, be fresh upon thy mind; when thou wakest in the morning look to Him; when thou liest down at night look to Him. Oh! let not thy hopes or fears come between thee and Jesus; follow hard after Him, and He will never fail thee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8216;My hope is built on nothing less<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Than Jesu&#8217;s blood and righteousness:<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I dare not trust the sweetest frame,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> But wholly lean on Jesu&#8217;s name.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>6.28a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon Hebrews 12:2 It is ever the Holy Spirit&#8217;s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan&#8217;s work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, &#8216;Your sins are too great for pardon; you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spurgeon-saturday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14311,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14310\/revisions\/14311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}