“LET THINE EYES LOOK RIGHT ON AND LET THEN EYE LIDS LOOK STRAIGHT BEFORE THEE”
EXACTLY WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LOOK AHEAD? IT MEANS SOMETHING TO BE CONSTANTLY LOOKING AND WORKING FOR… IN THIS CASE… ETERNITY!” WE ARE SURROUNDED BY THE THINGS IN THIS WORLD, WHICH TRIES TO GET AND KEEP A GRIP ON YOUR MIND… TRYING IF ABLE, TO HAVE YOU TO BE LOST IN TIME!”
AT TIMES, ITS GOOD TO LOOK BACK AT WHERE YOU’VE COME FROM, AND THE PATHWAY OF THE JOURNEY THAT YOU TRAVELED ON TO REMIND YOU OF PAST MISTAKES, THAT YOU’VE MADE AND IT HELPS YOU TO NOT MAKE THOSE SAME MISTAKES AGAIN!”
GOD INSTRUCTS US IN MATT. 28:19-20 “GO YOU THEREFORE AND TEACH ALL NATIONS BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY GHOST… TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHAT-SO-EVER I HAVE COMMANDED YOU AND, LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD.” WITH THESE GREAT WORDS THAT JESUS SPOKE TO THE DISCIPLES… HE WAS LETTING THEM KNOW THAT; “ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME… A GREAT COMMAND. GO! YE THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS. “TEACH THEM TO OBSERVE (TO LOOK AT ALL THINGS) WHAT-SO-EVER I HAVE COMMANDED YOU.” A GREAT PROMISE, “LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD.” THERE’S A PASSAGE FROM A POEM FROM THE BOOK ECHOES OF THE HEART 1876 THAT COMES TO MIND THAT HAS SAID…
"NOT MANY LIVES, BUT ONLY ONE HAVE WE, ONE ONLY ONE, HOW SACRED SHOULD THAT LIFE EVER BE!”
TODAY, LET US ENTER INTO A NEW BEGINNING FULL OF HOPE, PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES. GOD WROTE YOUR “SCRIPT OF THIS GREAT BIG MOTION PICTURE THAT YOU ARE STARRING IN AS HE HAS GIVEN YOU THE “LEADING ROLE.” “LOOK STRAIGHT AHEAD.” JESUS TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES TO LIFT UP THEIR EYES AND LOOK ON THE FIELDS ALL READY TO HARVEST, NEVER LOOKING BEHIND… BUT ONLY AHEAD!” GOD HIMSELF IS KEEPING WATCH!” THAT WE ARE NOT LABORING FOR EARTHLY REWARDS, FOR OUR REWARD IS ON HIGH. GOD SAYS!” GO, I’LL BE UNTO YOU WISDOM ASK, I’LL SUPPLY ALL OF YOUR NEEDS!” ONLY KEEP LOOKING AHEAD!” AND PRESS ONWARDLY TO THE PRIZE OF THE HIGH CALL WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS ALONE!”
THE THINGS THAT ARE SEEN ARE BUT TEMPORAL, BUT THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL. PERHAPS WE HAVE NOT ACCOMPLISHED ALL WE HOPED FOR OVER THE YEARS; PERHAPS WE HAVE MET WITH HARDSHIPS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS AND PERHAPS INGRATITUDE; SOME OF US PERHAPS HAVE HAD HEARTACHES, HAVE SHED TEARS, BUT OH, THE JOY OF LOOKING AHEAD TO KNOW THAT GOD HIMSELF IS KEEPING WATCH. THAT WE ARE NOT LABORING FOR EARTHLY REWARDS, FOR OUR REWARD IS ON HIGH… AND WE SHALL REACH IT BY AND BY.” LET US THEN, AS A BODY OF CHRIST RENEW OUR VOWS, PLACE OUR HAND IN HIS, AND MOVE ONWARDLY, AS THE SHEPHERD GIVES… THIS IS OUR ONLY CHANCE…
I'M REMINDED OF A GREAT WOMAN OF GOD FROM OLD (FLORENCE SPEARING RANDOLPH) ONCE SAID...
"THE BREATH THAT BRINGS STRENGTH I WANT TO GIVE, THE WATER PURE THAT BIDS THE THIRSTY LIVE; I WANT TO HELP THE FAINTING DAY BY DAY… I’M SURE I SHALL NOT PASS AGAIN THIS WAY… I WANT TO GIVE THE OIL OF JOY FOR TEARS, THE FAITH TO CONQUER CROWDING DOUBTS AND FEARS, BEAUTY FOR ASHES MAY I GIVE ALWAYS, I’M SURE I SHALL NOT PASS AGAIN THIS WAY. I WANT TO GIVE GOOD MEASURE RUNNING OVER, SHAKING DOWN INTO YOUR BOSOMS AND INTO ANGRY HEARTS, I WANT TO POUR… THE ANSWER SOFT THAT TURNS WRATH AWAY ONCE MORE… I’M SURE I SHALL NOT PASS AGAIN THIS WAY… BUT LET ME GIVE ALL THE MORE TO THOSE WHO ARE EMPTY AND DISMAYED… BECAUSE OF LOVE THEY NEVER RECEIVED FROM OTHERS… THE LOVE OF CHRIST THAT IS BEING SHARED AND GIVEN TOO… AGAPE LOVE… THAT FLOWS DOWN FROM HEAVEN… FROM ME TO YOU… “OH! WHAT A LOVE!
“LET YOUR EYES LOOK STRAIGHT AHEAD… GAZE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU TO GOD.”
“OUR SUPREME KING… ONLY “LOOK AHEAD!”
TAKE FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY 2018"
