Looking to Jesus

UV 1378/10,000 Looking to Jesus

Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

Micah 7 v 7

We need to look unto the Lord for redemption not only of our souls after our demise but in the course of our lives, in all our situations and issues. We need to focus on the locus or the centre of our lives that holds us together. The difficulty is how do we constantly focus on the One who is invisible. When we look into the visible Word, we are actually looking unto the invisible Lord. He will manifest himself to us in a variety of ways: in an answer to a long hoped for prayer, in healing us in our sickness, in giving us a word of counsel in a dilemmatic situation, in dealing with our unjust foes and enemies, in providing for a long felt need, in an unexpected good fortune.


It always involves a period of waiting for the Lord to answer or to act. He will enable us to rise when we fall, to see the light when we sit in darkness, loneliness, anguish, confusion or sadness. We need to trust in His sense of timing. He will respond neither too late or too early. When He delays, it does not mean He denies us that which we seek. He is building patience and faith in us. The word “ wait” can be expanded to mean “ Worship and I trust”. Something is restricting us in our spirits in tough situations. It is at this time that the Lord wants us to soar in our spirits in worship even before we see anything on the horizon by way of redemption in our situation. For us, the gratification of our desires, the solution of our problems is foremost but for the Lord it is the purification and perfection of our faith that is foremost priority. But when we sync our wills, thoughts and emotions with the Lord’s, both our desire and His desire will be accomplished.

The Lord God is not just God of salvation but “ God of my salvation.” He orchestrates or arranges or executes “my salvation”. Though Jesus is the truth, the way and the salvation, He unrolls it in a different way for each of us. Each of us is in different unique situations in our lives. The Lord knows our past, present and future. He knows the totality of our circumstances. He knows the limits of our strength and our weakness. He knows how much we can bear and endure. He will not let either our temporal or spiritual enemy to rejoice or gloat over us. He will enable us to float above like the lotus flower that floats however much the water in the pond rises or however much the miry clay attempts to drag it downward. We need to exercise the faith that God hears us. As we wait, we need to affirm to ourselves and others, : “My God will hear me.” If He hears us, He will not remain inert or unresponsive. He will respond in marvellous ways, the way He responded to the cry of the Israelites in bondage in Egypt, in the desert and when they confronted formidable obstacles, natural and supernatural, enemies, spiritual and human in the promised land. Our eyes must be on Jesus even as the Israelites were exhorted by Moses to look at the raised bronzen serpent- a symbol of the healing power of medicine in the modern day. The enemy will bite the dust like the ancient serpent. He will enable us to rejoice in our victory, in the increase of our faith and consequent blessings. Our eyes must be on Jesus, our mind on the promises of God, our knees on the floor.

Prateep V Philip