Fix Your Eyes on Jesus

My son Tom told me that he asked me a financial question when he was growing up and my answer to him was, “Fix your eyes on Jesus!”  I was embarrassed when he told me this.  I don’t know why I answered him this way.  I don’t even remember the incident.  My family has claimed that I have a selective hearing problem—perhaps this was proof.

The more that I reflect on this incident, the more “I’m good with my response.”  I might have said this to Tom because I didn’t know the answer to his question.  But if “Fix your eyes on Jesus” is the only thing my children remember their dad saying, I’m okay with this because Jesus has been my answer.

Life is difficult.  Sometimes it’s unbearable.  Life is complicated, bewildering, and ambiguous.  Often there are no answers with unending questions.  Sometimes the journey through life is long and the road ahead seems endless.

Fixing my eyes Jesus has been my relief.  In Him, I have found stability, strength, wisdom, stamina, and sanity.  In other words, He has been my Savior.

At the end of every day, I try to remember Paul’s words.  In II Timothy 4:6-8, Paul says:

I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure.  I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.  Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have long for His appearing.

It doesn’t matter when He shows up.  It does matter that He finds a trusting and expectant heart.