Fix your eyes on Jesus

  Fix your eyes on Jesus

The psalmist writes,

"I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart;

 before the "gods" I will sing your praise.” 

                                                            Psalm 138:1.

Question if you consider yourself a Christian. A true follower of Christ Jesus do you praise the Lord with your whole heart before “the gods”?

Where I live in North America too many people worship the wrong gods. The god of money, materialism, political figures among other things.

And these “gods” have slipped into the church. There are many evangelist and preachers filling stadiums with thousands of people who live by every word these people say.

Most of these pastors and evangelist are pedalling ‘christian copies’ of the secular world. Playing on the emotions of people want to get rich or healed or delivered from a bad situation.

    These so called “prosperity preachers” are little more than conmen. Who in another era would have called “snake oil salesmen”. 

They attract people with promises of wealth and health, saying if you will give what you have to their ministry. And when the giver doesn’t get rich or healthy, they say it’s a lack of faith or a need to give more money.

God is not a cosmic banker giving to his followers millions of dollars. If so those that are a part of the persecuted church around the world would be the richest Christians in the world. Because persecuted Christians, believers in Christ Jesus remain faithful to God no matter what they are going through.

The Bible never promised us riches. Jesus and his disciples were not rich men. All but one of them died a martyred death.

And as believers in 2022 we should not expect any better. We should learn from the disciples of Christ and do what the writer of Hebrews states,

"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God" Hebrews 12:2.

We should as the Psalmist states,

"I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart;

 before the "gods" I will sing your praise." 

                                                            Psalm 138:1.

Are you doing this?

Please think about it.