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8-10-00

This word is submitted by Alice Weeks (ahweeks@webtv.net)

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Where are your eyes looking?

Psalm 123:1-2
"Unto you I lift up my eyes,
O You who dwell in the heavens."

Where are your eyes looking? Are you lifting your eyes up to heaven? Or are your eyes looking at: your problems , your circumstances, Other people, husband, wife, children, job etc., your wallet, your debts, Your sickness, your faults, someone else's faults, your successes, someone else's success, your failures, someone else's failure, your health, your age/ too young/too old.

Where are your eyes looking ?

Are your eyes looking to the hills (ie.other gods), lottery/bingo, material possessions.?

Are your eyes looking to Him who dwells in the heaven's? Or are your eyes looking at the devil and what he is doing? do not put your eyes on the devil/except to cast him out!

Where are your eyes looking? Are you looking at the works of the flesh? (Gen.3:6 So when the woman saw...that it was pleasant to the eyes... )

Where are your eyes looking? Are they looking at forbidden fruit? That was Eve's first mistake. First she looked, then she took and then she ate and then she gave to Adam and he ate. The Fall began with Eve's eyes looking at the wrong place.

Matt. 6:22-23
The lamp of the body is the eye

Luke 6:41
Are your eyes looking at the speck in your brother's eye but you do not perceive the plank in your own eye?

Mt. 5:26-29
Where are your eyes looking? Are your eyes lusting?

As the eyes of servants look to their masters
As the eyes of a maid looks to her mistress
So our eyes look to the LORD our God, Until He has mercy on us.

A servant, looks to his master to provide for all his needs, A servant seeks only to please his master , not himself. He is totally dependent upon his master and his master's mercy.

We serve a wonderful master who loves us so much that He sent His only begotten son that we might have eternal life and life more abundantly.

Where are you eyes looking?