From My Window......Keep The Skyward Look

"We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."

This morning, our reading from Streams In The Desert  read, "You should get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of storm clouds. And once you have found it, continue to focus on it rather that the dark gray of the center.  Do not yield to discouragement no matter how severely stressed or surrounded by problems you may be.  A discouraged soul is in a helpless state, neither able to stand against the storm or prevail in prayer for others. Flee every symptom of discouragement as you would run from a snake. Never be slow to turn your back on it, unless you desire to eat the dust of bitter defeat."

The author went on to tell a beautiful story:

"On a day in the autumn, I saw a prairie eagle mortally wounded by a rifle shot. His eye still gleamed like a circle of light. Then he slowly turned his head, and gave one more searching and longing look at the sky. He had often swept those starry spaces with his wonderful wings. The beautiful sky was the home of his heart. It was the eagle's domain. A thousand times he had exploited there his splendid strength. In those far away heights be had played with the lightnings, and raced with the winds, and now, so far away from home, the eagle lay dying, done to the death, because for once be forgot and flew too low. The soul is that eagle. This is not its home. It must not lose the skyward look. We must keep faith, we must keep hope, we must keep courage, we must keep Christ. We would better creep away from the battlefield at once if we are not going to be brave. There is no time for the soul to stampede. Keep the skyward look, my soul; keep the skyward look!"

David Jeremiah, a favorite speaker of mine, addresses the current crisis from a Biblical perspective. He says we must concentrate on prayer and control our minds.  In his talk he refers to the passage in II Chronicles 20 where Jehoshaphat was about to be attacked by the enemy. Jehoshaphat cried out, " Are you not the God who is in Heaven? You rule over the nations. Power and might are yours. If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword or plague or famine, we will stand in your presence and cry out to you in our distress and you will hear us and save us....we have no power against this enemy.  We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."

Now that was sort of paraphrased, but I remember when Megan was in Piedmont Hospital here in Atlanta and she was being attacked by a vicious disease. We did not know what to do.  The doctors did not know what to do. But our eyes were on God. 

This is an another attack and we are all in a state of not knowing what to do. But we can concentrate on prayer and control our minds.  I'm working on it.