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Where Are You Looking?

From the Winnie Stowell church of Christ bulletin, posted in today’s Montana Street bulletin, comes the following article, author unknown:

Let’s see. What is the crisis of the day? If could be terrorism and its random threat. Or it could be the economy and the fear that we will run out of money before we run out of time. Maybe it’s a personal crisis with no foreseeable solution — a tragedy or a failure too great to bear.

Before we fall under the weight of our accumulated fears, we would do well to look back to a 20th century woman who bore sadness, pain, and heartache with grace.

Corrie Ten Boom lived through the horrible life of Nazi concentration camps — a place where hope was lost for most people. She survived to tell her story of unfaltering faith and tight-fisted hope in God.

She saw the fact of evil up close and personal. She saw some of the most inhumane acts man can do to man. And when she came out of it all, she said this:

“If you look at the world, you’ll be depressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look to Christ, you’ll be at rest.”

Where are you looking? In an uncertain world, we only find hope in looking to the Author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:1-2).