Good Morning!
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. (Isaiah 45:22)
I knew a man for many years, a praying man, who prayed with great passion and fervor and was respected by all who knew him. He was equally at home in church or delivering mail or hauling cattle to the stock yard or working in his garden. At the close of every prayer he would end with the above verse and when he got to: "for I am God, and there is none else" he would always break with a passionate sob in his throat. Always he prayed that way. A great crowd of people filed through the funeral home as he lay in state. Many if not most of them, would pause and tell something he had done for them in a time of need. This is a great verse to memorize.
This verse was also used of the Lord in converting the world-famous pastor, Charles Spurgeon to Christ when Spurgeon was just a young fellow. I love to read of his conversion. McGee has the best account of Spurgeon's conversion and I'll share it with you.
"This is the verse, used by an ignorant man, which was responsible for the conversion of Charles Spurgeon. Spurgeon was on his way to church one Sunday morning when a snowstorm hit London. Because he couldn't make it to his church, he stopped at a little church along the way. The storm was so severe that the preacher did not make it to this little church, so a man got up and said a few words.
Spurgeon never knew the man's name; he only knew that he was an uneducated man. He chose Isa_45:22 as his text, and what he lacked in lightning, he made up for in thunder. He said, "This verse says, 'Look unto me, and be ye saved.'" He began to talk about the verse. "God says you should look to Him and be saved." By that time he ran out of ammunition.
He had said all he could say about the verse, so he went into the thunder department and began to roar and pound the pulpit, "Look to God, all the ends of the earth, and be saved." He looked way back in the congregation and saw the young fellow Spurgeon sitting there with a very miserable look on his face. The man said to Spurgeon, "You look to Jesus, and you will be saved." Spurgeon was a very brilliant man, but he did what this ignorant man suggested—he looked to Jesus and was saved."
And if you are not saved, this is where you are. Please stop everything you are thinking and focus on this one verse for just a moment. Have you really looked unto Him? Oh, not with a flashlight. Look unto Him with your eye of faith. Look to Him with your heart. You can be saved standing up or sitting down or on your knees. What you must do is to bow your heart to Him in submission. You can sing a hundred songs about God and not submit to Him as Savior and Lord. You cannot be saved until you do that one thing. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Acts 16:31) With your whole heart.
I love the story told by a missionary who preached to an Indian tribe. The old Chief listened intently and decided Jesus was the Great Chief. So he said to the missionary, "Chief give horse to Jesus." "No, that's not what He wants." He thought some more and said "Chief give horse and best blanket to Jesus." "No, that's not what He wants." After several minutes of silence he said, "Chief give himself to Jesus." "Oh! That's exactly what He wants! He wants to be your Great Chief!"
Wherever you are, you can be saved if you are ready to do what this verse says.Ω
The Constitution of the United States
Article I
Section 2. (Continued) No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of Twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. (Read carefully: double negatives are at work here. "Person" must be at least the age of twenty five years and must be a member of the State in which he is elected.)
●To read the history and full text of the U.S. Constitution go here:→ http://www.senate.gov/civics/constitution_item/constitution.htm
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