WHAT DO YOU SEE ?

WHAT DO YOU SEE ?: In the book The Great Physician, which is fun this message, Dr. Lillian B. Yeomans told about a famous English preacher by the name of Dr. Joseph Parker, pastor of city Temple in London. As he was crossing the Atlantic by ship to minister in North America, some young men on board were anxious to meet him, because he was famous. But Dr. Parker just said on deck hour after hour, gazing at the vast expanse of water. He seemed unaware of anything around him. Finally, one young man approached Dr. Parker and asked, "What do you see that ?" Dr. Parker replied without even turning his head, "Nothing but God. Nothing but God." When you turn your face to the wall, you should see nothing but God. With his face to the wall, King Hezekiah saw nothing but God. And he cried unto the Lord and prayed with tears. And this God with whom nothing shall be impossible heard and answered that prayer ! Many turn to God with their problems and do not turn away from their problems to turn to God in prayer ! Before Isaiah even God I love the palace courtyard, the Lord said to him, "Go back and announced to the king that I've heard his prayer and seen his tears, and his request is granted. I'm going to give him 15 more years. I'm going to add 15 years to his life." It is possible that even more time was added later on. In all ages, those who have done exports for God were those who turn their faces to the wall. By that I mean that they turned away from everything connected with human reasoning and looked entirely to divine reasoning: to God and to Him along. They got results. In the beginning book of the Bible, Genesis, we see how Noah saved the human race from extinction by turning his face to the wall, so to speak. He found grace with the Lord, and was told to build an ark. That art is a type of Christ, who is the refuge of His people from judgment. If people today will turn from everything else and turned to Christ Jesus, they would find that He is still the Refuge --- and that the only safe place is really in Him. That's the reason we shouldn't be disturbed about tidings of His second coming. Jesus told us all these things will come. Jesus said there would be wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, famines, and such things, with men's hearts failing them for fear for looking on the things that are coming to pass upon the earth. When these things begin to come to pass, He Said, "then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh" (Luke 21:28). Notice he didn't say "Run away and hide and stick your heads in the sand." He said, "Lift up your heads" ! I don't know about you, but I'm looking up and rejoicing, for our redemption "draweth nigh." We received part of our redemption and inheritance when our spirits were reborn and as our minds are being renewed with the Word of God. And thank God we're also going to have brand-new bodies someday. (1 Corinthians 15:52). "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." (1 Thessalonians 4:16--18). "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."