LOOKING UNTO JESUS
and not at the dearest, the most legitimate of our earthly joys, lest we be so engrossed in them that they deprive us of the sight of the very One Who gives them to us. If we are looking at Him first of all then it is from him we receive these good things, made a thousand times more precious because we possess them as gifts from His loving hands, which we entrust to His keeping, to enjoy them in communion with Him, and to use them for His glory.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
