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HEBREWS 12:12. Looking unto Jesus. EXODUS. 7:12 But AARONS rod swallowed up their rod

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Charles Spurgeon's Morning and Evening - June 28, 2017

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> Today's Reading
> Morning
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> "Looking unto Jesus."
> Hebrews 12:2
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> It is ever the Holy Spirit's work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but
Satan's work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us
regard ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, "Your sins are too great for
pardon; you have no faith; you do not repent enough; you will never be able to
continue to the end; you have not the joy of his children; you have such a
wavering hold of Jesus." All these are thoughts about self, and we shall never
find comfort or assurance by looking within.

But the Holy Spirit turns our eyes
entirely away from self: he tells us that we are nothing, but that "Christ is all
in all." Remember, therefore, it is not thy hold of Christ that saves thee--it is
Christ; it is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee--it is Christ; it is not even
faith in Christ, though that be the instrument--it is Christ's blood and merits;
therefore, look not so much to thy hand with which thou art grasping Christ, as to
Christ; look not to thy hope, but to Jesus, the source of thy hope; look not to
thy faith, but to Jesus, the author and finisher of thy faith.

We shall never find
happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus
is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. If we would at once overcome
Satan and have peace with God, it must be by "looking unto Jesus." Keep thine eye
simply on him; let his death, his sufferings, his merits, his glories, his
intercession, be fresh upon thy mind; when thou wakest in the morning look to him;
when thou liest down at night look to him. Oh! let not thy hopes or fears come
between thee and Jesus; follow hard after him, and he will never fail thee.
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> "My hope is built on nothing less
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> Than Jesus' blood and righteousness:
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> I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
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> But wholly lean on Jesus' name."
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> Evening
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> "But Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods."
> Exodus 7:12
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> This incident is an instructive emblem of the sure victory of the divine handiwork
over all opposition. Whenever a divine principle is cast into the heart, though
the devil may fashion a counterfeit, and produce swarms of opponents, as sure as
ever God is in the work, it will swallow up all its foes. If God's grace takes
possession of a man, the world's magicians may throw down all their rods; and
every rod may be as cunning and poisonous as a serpent, but Aaron's rod will
swallow up their rods.

The sweet attractions of the cross will woo and win the
man's heart, and he who lived only for this deceitful earth will now have an eye
for the upper spheres, and a wing to mount into celestial heights. When grace has
won the day the worldling seeks the world to come. The same fact is to be observed
in the life of the believer. What multitudes of foes has our faith had to meet!
Our old sins--the devil threw them down before us, and they turned to serpents.
What hosts of them! Ah, but the cross of Jesus destroys them all. Faith in Christ
makes short work of all our sins. Then the devil has launched forth another host
of serpents in the form of worldly trials, temptations, unbelief; but faith in
Jesus is more than a match for them, and overcomes them all.

The same absorbing
principle shines in the faithful service of God! With an enthusiastic love for
Jesus difficulties are surmounted, sacrifices become pleasures, sufferings are
honours. But if religion is thus a consuming passion in the heart, then it follows
that there are many persons who profess religion but have it not; for what they
have will not bear this test. Examine yourself, my reader, on this point. Aaron's
rod proved its heaven-given power. Is your religion doing so? If Christ be
anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the
master passions of your soul!
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BOB. HEBREWS, I corrected it. CHARLIE. :tango_face_wink:
 
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