Are You Looking at Sin or Salvation?

Oswald Chambers taught, “The mystery of sanctification is that all the perfect qualities of Jesus are at my disposal.”

The enemy knowing this full well, he wants to distract us. When we struggle with repetitive sin, we often focus on it. We think, “I MUST STOP THAT. We read books about it. We pray about it. Maybe – probably not, but maybe if desperate enough – we tell our closest Christian friends about our struggle and ask them to pray. But mostly we focus on it – THE THING WE CAN’T STOP DOING.

And yet all the while the “perfect qualities of Jesus” are “at my disposal.”

If you look into darkness, you will begat darkness. If you look into light, you will begat light. We often fail to overcome because we are stupefied by our sin, then repulsed by our selves. Quit looking at your sin and your self!

Look unto Jesus. Think about the fact that He has given power to overcome, ask for this power, and focus on the right action, the good He is doing in and through you – the light!

I remember when I first started driving. Where I looked, the car would drift . . . . isn’t is that way in our walk with Christ? We must look straight ahead, to the straight and narrow path. We must look into light. The enemy wants us looking beyond the guard rails, off road, into danger, especially if it’s a place we are familiar with.

Look at Him. Look at deliverance. Look at hope.