Psalms 123:1 – “ I lift up my eyes to you, to you whose throne is in heaven.”
The reason we lift up our eyes to God is because the Lord is in His heavenly throne (Holy Temple) and He observes the sons of men; and His eyes examines us (Ps11: 4). So that after observing and examining He can raise the poor from the dust and the needy from the ash heap, and make them sit with the princes of the chosen people (Ps 113: 7-8).
Ps 123: 2 – “As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God till he shows us his mercy.”
Servant and maid are the two similes by which a faithful (men and women) present themselves as humble and completely dependent upon God. As a servant depends upon his master for all their needs to be met, so we depend upon our God and moreover we are His “Bondservant.”
A servant works for wages because he knows that at the end, he will get paid for all the work he has done and more than the service that he renders for his master, his focus is on the wages that he gets at the end of the month and once the servant stops getting his wages, he stops working. But a Bondservant of God, no matter whether he gets his provision or not, whether his needs are met or not, he constantly, consistently, continuously works for his master and remains faithful to him until the point of death. We can learn this from the life of Paul, many a times he went without food, even then he was faithful to God. So this means that whether we are in plenty or poverty, prosperity or adversity, our eyes should be fixed on our Master, who created the heaven and earth and also created us.
Therefore, “Endurance” is a part of our Christian living. Whether at home or in the market place, we are called to endure hardship like a good soldier of Christ Jesus (2Tim 2:3) and if we endure we will also reign with Him (2Tim 2:12A). Because endurance is a commandment of God, which our Lord Jesus himself practiced and taught us, therefore He says that if we keep the command of enduring patiently in all circumstances, He will also keep us from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth (Rev 3:10).
Our God is a God of hope and therefore he instructs us to have hope in Him through endurance and encouragement of scriptures (His Word) Rom.15:4A). The hope refers to the divine hope that a believer should have in his life by the power of the Holy Spirit (Rom.15:13).
Have A Blessed Day!
God Bless
Every Day With Jesus
The reason we lift up our eyes to God is because the Lord is in His heavenly throne (Holy Temple) and He observes the sons of men; and His eyes examines us (Ps11: 4). So that after observing and examining He can raise the poor from the dust and the needy from the ash heap, and make them sit with the princes of the chosen people (Ps 113: 7-8).
Ps 123: 2 – “As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God till he shows us his mercy.”
Servant and maid are the two similes by which a faithful (men and women) present themselves as humble and completely dependent upon God. As a servant depends upon his master for all their needs to be met, so we depend upon our God and moreover we are His “Bondservant.”
A servant works for wages because he knows that at the end, he will get paid for all the work he has done and more than the service that he renders for his master, his focus is on the wages that he gets at the end of the month and once the servant stops getting his wages, he stops working. But a Bondservant of God, no matter whether he gets his provision or not, whether his needs are met or not, he constantly, consistently, continuously works for his master and remains faithful to him until the point of death. We can learn this from the life of Paul, many a times he went without food, even then he was faithful to God. So this means that whether we are in plenty or poverty, prosperity or adversity, our eyes should be fixed on our Master, who created the heaven and earth and also created us.
Therefore, “Endurance” is a part of our Christian living. Whether at home or in the market place, we are called to endure hardship like a good soldier of Christ Jesus (2Tim 2:3) and if we endure we will also reign with Him (2Tim 2:12A). Because endurance is a commandment of God, which our Lord Jesus himself practiced and taught us, therefore He says that if we keep the command of enduring patiently in all circumstances, He will also keep us from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth (Rev 3:10).
Our God is a God of hope and therefore he instructs us to have hope in Him through endurance and encouragement of scriptures (His Word) Rom.15:4A). The hope refers to the divine hope that a believer should have in his life by the power of the Holy Spirit (Rom.15:13).
Have A Blessed Day!
God Bless
Every Day With Jesus
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