Turn Your Face to Jesus

09/21/97

Spurgeon tells of the country proclaimer of Jesus that showed him Jesus in the following verse, and changed his life forever. “Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth” (Isa. 45:22). The country man began thus: “My dear friends, this is a very simple text indeed. It says, “Look.” Now, lookin’ don’t take a deal of pains. It ain’t liftin’ your foot or your finger; it is just, “Look.” Then the text says, “Look unto Me.” Ay, many of ye are lookin’ to yourselves, but it’s no use lookin’ there.” Then the man followed in this way: “Look unto Me; I am sweatin’ great drops of blood. Look unto Me; I am hangin’ on a cross. Look unto Me; I am dead and buried. Look unto Me; I rise again. Look unto Me; I ascend unto heaven. Look unto Me; I am sittin’ at the Father’s right hand. O poor sinner, look unto Me! Look unto Me!” He continued. “And you always will be miserable—miserable in life and miserable in death—if you do not obey these Words. But if you obey now, you will be saved.” Then, lifting up his hands, he shouted, as only an old timer would do, “Young man, look to Jesus Christ. Look! Look! Look! You have nothin’ to do but look and live.” Could we all just take a minute, now, in quiet and in private, to look at Jesus??? 8:15 p.m.