Looking with spiritual eyes

“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2

The writer of the Hebrews speaks to us from a spiritual sense, and not a fleshly one. There are some things we see through our physical eye gate and some things we see with only our spiritual eyes. Jesus is one of those spiritual sights, because we have never physically seen Jesus Christ. Beloved there are some things we as believers must keep our eyes on and there is no doubt those “things” are in heaven. The first is Jesus Christ, because the scripture has concluded He is our everything, which is every thing needed in our spiritual and fleshly life. With Him all things are possible, we can climb mountains, and we can walk on water, however once our eyes are removed from Him we will roll back down the mountain or sink in the water like a 150 pound rock. Beloved I hope your eyes are on the Lord Jesus Christ just as God through the writer of the Hebrews has commanded, because if they are not, then just as Peter you will sink in the water that we are so blessed to walk on. Philippians 3:20 “For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:”
“The author and finisher of our faith;” That is, Jesus Christ is the originator of our faith; it is not in man to have this faith except through Jesus Christ. Beloved it is with this faith we have the ability to keep our eyes on Him. As long as Peter had his eyes on Jesus he had faith, it is only after his eyes wondered he began to sink and once again his eyes went again to Jesus and he was saved from sinking. When the Hebrew writer says that Jesus is the finisher of our faith he means in Jesus our faith is complete. Beloved this is what is meant by keeping our eyes on Jesus, everything in life is complete in Him. We as believers need no one else; we need nothing else, just Jesus. This world is full of wants and wishes however every one of them moves our attention away from the One we need to be fixed upon. The Lord asked “For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?” Luke 9:25 to “be cast away” means to suffer loss, and that loss will be eternal happiness in glory. Our Lord tells us if we remain in faith and our eyes are continually on Jesus and the things above then we will gain crowns of righteousness, however once our eyes are removed from the author and finisher of faith then we suffer loss. There will be many who will suffer this loss and for many reasons, but all will be because their eyes were removed from Jesus Christ. Paul said to the church at Colossae, “That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;” Colossians 1:10 being fruitful is walking in the world everyday with your eyes gazing at Jesus Christ and ignoring this world and the eye catching things of it. “Who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” “Who for the joy” yes indeed joy it was for Jesus Christ to give His life in shame on that cross, because in doing so you and I could share this glorious faith He has given to us. This is the eye of faith, the faith of our Saviour that His horrible death would bring faith to us. The faith to believe, the faith to count on him, the faith to understand for us all is in Him and none other. It is because He has faith we are able to have faith and let us not waste the faith Jesus has so kindly given to us and make it a shame by looking through the wrong set of eyes.