A Devotion from J. Oswald Sanders

Look unto Me, and be ye saved. Isaiah 45:22.

Do we expect God to come to us with His blessings and save us? He says—‘Look unto Me,

and be saved.’ The great difficulty spiritually is to concentrate on God, and it is His blessings

that make it difficult. Troubles nearly always make us look to God; His blessings are apt to make

us look elsewhere. The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is, in effect—Narrow all your

interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the

saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God. There is no salvation in this way, it is

not simple enough. “Look unto Me” and—not ‘you will be saved,’ but ‘you are saved.’ The very

thing we look for, we shall find if we will concentrate on Him. We get preoccupied and sulky

with God, while all the time He is saying—‘Look up and be saved.’ The difficulties and trials, the

casting about in our minds as to what we shall do this summer, or to-morrow, all vanish when

we look to God.

Rouse yourself up and look to God. Build your hope on Him. No matter if there are a

hundred and one things that press, resolutely exclude them all and look to Him. “Look unto

Me,” and salvation is, the moment you look.