Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could eat and eat and eat and then burn it all off while we slept only to eat more the next day? And what about the sudden wealth of winning that multi-million dollar lottery? The trouble with all this is, if we had it, then what? Would we stop wanting more? Would the consequences of our worldly lusts matter? Would we finally be satisfied? Mick Jagger's sensational hit song, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" says it all for such desires. The spiritual hymn to remedy that song could be, "Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus." I love that song. It reminds me to "..fix my eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." II Corinthians 5:18 Great things came to many Godly men and women of the bible who lived out this truth. For a short synopsis of such great stories, read this: BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Hebrews 11 This passage is also known as, The Great Hall of Faith. I've read it many times and have recently gone back to it in a bible study I'm in. Such inspiration! I hope it wets your appetite and leads you to find the stories of these faithful characters in the bible. May their stories inspire us to long for the satisfaction only Jesus can give us!
"Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face; And the things of earth will grow strangely dim...In the light of His glory and grace." Refrain from, "Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus", Text and Music: Helen Howarth Lemmel (1864-1961)
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