Keeping our eyes on Jesus (part 1)

What does that mean?

I unknowingly began to answer my own questions in an earlier post titled "still revelation."

Truth is connected, be it in a nation, a family, a marriage or in this case, our walk with God and the connection is authority.

Who has it?

Ultimately, God in every case.

For some days now I've been concentrating on some verses of scripture that has me thinking, I'm close, very close to a clearer understanding of what
"keeping our eyes on Jesus" really means.

The scripture is in Matthew , when it talks about our eye being the lamp of the body, in Mt 6.
I've been diving into that because I'm thinking some answers to many questions are in a passage like this and before I adopt a belief in my mind from what a preacher might say to that I intend to look at it closer, myself.

This is important  when you consider the reasons christians struggle reading thru God's Word.

Not understanding what it means to keep our eyes on Jesus could mean, what light we do have, or that which we think we know, could be darkness. 

So I'm thinking, we as 21rst century American Christians better get that "keeping our eyes on Jesus"  thing right.

Bottom line is, if anyone in this modern society who calls themselves Christian, if they are not daily in the Bible themselves, in context, front to back,

since no other way exists to truly know what "keeping our eyes on Jesus" means,  you may be easily Deceived.

I can just hear people yelling,

"I don't need to read the Bible to be a Christian! "

If I had a dime every time I heard that.

I'm not talking to that one whose living under a bridge in any inner city or to the one camped out in the Amazon Forrest.

My thoughts and passion and prayers go to the ones who just said or thought..

" you don't have to read the Bible to be a Christian! "

If you want to hear what God is saying, you do need God's complete Word.

I'm telling ya, in a society that has an infinite, endless, constant 24/7, never takes a break, onslaught avalanche of

Ideas , beliefs, slogans, shortcuts campaigns, isms

that attach themselves to our   "feelings "

If you think after all that, God's Word in context won't sift thru that.. Two words :

Your wrong.

Please, no one remind me it's God's Spirit alone that reveals His Word. Trust me, I'm not so far gone not to know that.

The intent of this blog, one of several, is too encourage the  church goer to ask themselves, why aren't they reading it thru as any other book.

The only way to combat an avalanche of cultural confusion is with a greater avalanche of God's truth and central message.

When Christians, who struggle, are reminded that Jesus is the message and a heavenly kingdom  awaits us

they say "oh, that?  Yeah, but how will that help me now?"

Can God's promises for heavenly rewards help us now?

Yes!

When I saw these verses in Matthew, at church, as we go thru this vrs by verse,  I couldn't help but ask myself..

If these verses encourage us to keep our eyes on Jesus, what does that mean?

Everyone says they are keeping there eyes on Jesus but life's problem seem to dominate.

I struggle with the same.

What do people "think" will happen if they begin to read the Bible, in context , or listening to it on audio. I can share  here, what happens.

That's another reason why I started this blog