Fix your Eyes on Jesus

Hebrews 12:2

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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Not the imagery as many of us have not seen him before but with the eye of the understanding, or with the eye of faith; for faith is a seeing of the Son; it is a spiritual sight of Christ, which is at first but glimmering, afterwards it increases, and is of a soul humbling nature; it is marvellous and surprising; it transforms into the image of Christ, and fills with joy unspeakable, and full of glory.

A believer should always be looking to Christ, as the only subject of focus and off of every object, as the word here used signifies. 

Christ is to be looked unto as “Jesus”, a Saviour, who being appointed and sent by God to be a Saviour, came, and is become the author of eternal salvation; and to him only should we look, he is able and willing to save; he is a suitable, complete, and only Saviour; and whoever look to him by faith shall be saved; and he is to be considered, and looked unto, as our deliverer, one who has rescued us from the hold of darkness and bought us unto himself by faith in his blood; set free, redeemed and justified, not just for a time but Forever.

He is to be seen as “the author and finisher of faith”: he is the author or efficient cause of it; all men are by nature without it; it is not in the power of man to believe of himself; it is a work of omnipotence; it is an instance of the exceeding greatness of the power of God; and it is the operation of Christ, by his Spirit; and the increase of it is from him.

Also as the finisher of it conferring to us the blessings of the the Spirit, in him the fullness of the godhead dwells and we are complete in him. 

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I fix my eyes upon Jesus and every other thing fades away.