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Grandson, Eli
Last year, when I was laid up for a while after my toe surgery and wasn't able to roam Colorado in search of the illusive trophy picture, I began digging through the catacombs of old photographs. Needless to say there are many computer bytes taken up with this young man, Eli, and now of my second grandson, Nolan.
Eli had just turned one when he, along with his parents, graced our home with his presence and I snapped this picture.
I don't know at whom Eli is looking, but he has his eyes fixed on that person.
"My eyes are always on the LORD. He removes my feet from traps." Psalm 25:15 God's Word to the Nations.
There are many things upon which we can focus our eyes: money, another person, or things. God invites us to focus our eyes on him. There is much out there that would trap us into thinking that "they" have the answers to life's struggles, yet our only answer is in Christ.
Did you catch that: Jesus is the only answer. I didn't say he would answer all your questions. We live with the reality that many of our questions will never be answered.
However, it is Jesus, and Jesus alone, who can remove our feet from the traps laid for us by the world, our broken sinful nature, and the devil himself.
As the writer to the Hebrews encourages us, "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:1-2 English Standard Version
God, give us the eyes of a child!
Join the conversation at Praying With the Eyes on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/173881749421231/
Eli had just turned one when he, along with his parents, graced our home with his presence and I snapped this picture.
I don't know at whom Eli is looking, but he has his eyes fixed on that person.
"My eyes are always on the LORD. He removes my feet from traps." Psalm 25:15 God's Word to the Nations.
There are many things upon which we can focus our eyes: money, another person, or things. God invites us to focus our eyes on him. There is much out there that would trap us into thinking that "they" have the answers to life's struggles, yet our only answer is in Christ.
Did you catch that: Jesus is the only answer. I didn't say he would answer all your questions. We live with the reality that many of our questions will never be answered.
However, it is Jesus, and Jesus alone, who can remove our feet from the traps laid for us by the world, our broken sinful nature, and the devil himself.
As the writer to the Hebrews encourages us, "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:1-2 English Standard Version
God, give us the eyes of a child!
Join the conversation at Praying With the Eyes on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/173881749421231/
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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2012-2014 Douglas P. Brauner. ARR.
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