{"id":467149,"date":"2025-01-22T00:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=467149"},"modified":"2025-01-22T00:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:25:09","slug":"where-am-i-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/where-am-i-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Am I Looking?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Look unto me, and be ye saved. \u2014Isaiah 45:22 kjv<br><\/em><\/strong>The mind wanders, casting about. It worries over today and tomorrow, growing dizzy with its troubles and trials. These troubles vanish when we look to God, but we must truly look: to look means to concentrate fully on Jesus. This, in effect, is the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount: we must narrow all our interests until the attitude of our mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ (Matthew 5\u20137).<br>To look to God is to be saved. We have stories and ideas in our minds of great Christian saints and heroes. We think we must emulate their lives to be saved. But there is no salvation in emulation; it is not simple enough. \u201cLook unto me, and be ye saved,\u201d says God. Not \u201cyou will be saved\u201d but \u201cyou are saved.\u201d We get preoccupied and grumpy with God, and all the time he is saying, \u201cJust look.\u201d<br>Concentrating on God is a great spiritual challenge. It is easier in times of trouble, when we desperately need him, than in times of peace and contentment. God\u2019s blessings absorb us, pulling us away in delighted distraction. We must not let them. Though a thousand wonderful things vie for our attention, we must learn to let them come and go, keeping our focus on God.<br>\u201cLook unto me,\u201d says God. The moment you look, salvation is.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look unto me, and be ye saved. \u2014Isaiah 45:22 kjvThe mind wanders, casting about. It worries over today and tomorrow, growing dizzy with its troubles and trials. These troubles vanish when we look to God, but we must truly look: to look means to concentrate fully on Jesus. This, in effect, is the teaching of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}