His Eye is on Us -Psalms 33:18-19

I know I just did a section from Psalms 33, but I wanted to share these verses, also from Psalms 33.

It's so easy as Christians to lose sight, to lose perspective. To be totally honest, I believe that this has been a constant battle for me lately. Maybe it has been for you too. It's so easy to get caught up in the here and now, and so easy to lose our sense of reality...what's really pure and good and honest and true.

These verses are a comfort to me because they remind me that even if I turn my eyes from being fixed on Jesus, that His eye is constantly on me.

"Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy, To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine."

 Look to Jesus, and hope in His mercy! His eye is on us...to deliver us!

I know this will be taking this verse out of context, but I really like verse 8 of Matthew 17 after Jesus was transfigured on the mount. The disciples see Jesus transfigured, and they see with Him Moses and Elijah. Then Peter, caught up in the moment, says to Jesus that they should "...make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

But then, a bright cloud covers them, and a voice comes out of the cloud saying, "This is My Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"

The disciples, afraid, fall on their faces. But Jesus comes and touches them and says, "Arise, and do not be afraid." After that, verse 8 says,

"When they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only."

My prayer is that we would see no one but Jesus.

That, as we "run with endurance the race that is set before us," we would be "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 has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."