Fix your eyes on Jesus for
consistency
Fixing your eyes on Jesus doesn't mean concentrating on Him so diligently that you eventually collapse from exhaustion.
Even when a person's job demands momentary total absorption, he can still love his marriage partner with great steadiness and consistence. And your relationship with the Lord is the same: The continuity of your life will be a matter first of heart, of unchanging purpose, of unswerving direction.
Continuity is essential for anything: any good work of art, any good project, any good life. Once you've fixed your eyes on Jesus, let there start to be about you a sense of consistency, reliability, unbrokenness.
My eyes are ever on the Lord (Psalm 25:15).
It's the way Jesus is — "the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8). And He continually has His eye fixed on you.
"You created my inmost being: you knit me together in my mother's womb. Your eyes saw my unformed body" (Psalm 139:13, 16).
"The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry" (Psalm 34:15).
"He does not take his eyes off the righteous; he enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever" (Job 36:7).
Oh, how steady, how consistent, how reliable is your Lord Jesus!
His love is unchanging (Jeremiah 31:3).
His Word is unchanging (1 Peter 1:24-25).
His throne is unchanging (Hebrews 1:8).
His salvation is unchanging (Hebrews 7:24-25).
His gifts to you are unchanging (James 1:17).
He Himself is unchanging (Malachi 3:6).
And you want to be like Jesus.
Do you sense that your life has a steadiness to it, a continuity, a consistency? Or do you want it to?
What is it about your life that's up-and-down?
Your weight? Join Weight Watchers or some other group to hold you accountable.
Your affection for your marriage partner, roommate, someone else close? Ask a steady, older, godly person to disciple you. Meet with that one regularly, confess your problem, solicit prayer, and report each time how you're doing.
Your emotions? Get a physical checkup, telling your doctor your specific symptoms.
Your Bible reading and prayer life? Join a small group (four to eight people) to whom you can answer. Ask to be checked up on.
Wherever in yourself you sense a tendency to instability, quickly reach to an outside source and deliberately build in consistency.
The point is, begin to mold your life to His; start to reflect Him. "Seek his face always" (Psalm 105:4).
Soon — sooner than you expect — you, too, will begin to project His kind of wonderful reliability, flow, steadiness, dependability, continuity.
"Continue in the grace of God"! (Acts 13:43)
"Continue in his kindness"! (Romans 11:22)
"Continue in your faith"! (Colossians 1:23)
"Continue to live in him"! (Colossians 2:6)
"Continue in faith, love and holiness"! (1 Timothy 2:15)
"Continue in what you have learned"! (2 Timothy 3:14)
"Continue in him"! (1 John 2:28)
Fix your eyes on Jesus. Then you can sing,
Moment by moment I'm kept in His love;
Moment by moment I've life from above;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine —
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.
Let's pray together.
O Lord, make me a steady person, focusing on the One who delivers my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from stumbling (Psalm 116:8).
You will establish, strengthen, settle me. You will hold me firm, O Abba Father. You will make Proverbs 4:25 and 27 come true for me:
Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you. Do not swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.
I trust You for this. Fix my eyes on
You. In Jesus' name, amen.
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"Moment by Moment," words by Daniel W. White; music by May Whittle Moody.
