"Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else." Isa. 45:22.
THERE is salvation to every one who looks unto Jesus Christ our Saviour; who speaks nothing but righteousness, and who only declares things that are right. By looking unto Him we behold One who is holy, just, and good. Looking unto Him we behold One who is perfect; one who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth. By looking unto Him we behold One who abides in the love of God and keeps all of His Father's commandments; and by looking unto Jesus we behold One who is able to save us from our sins. How is it possible that some, yes, many, neglect so great a salvation which could be had by just looking unto the Lord our Saviour? It is true they must be looking elsewhere. They might be looking at their own goodness and their own righteousness which are red as crimson, and as filthy rags. They may be looking at their brother's or sister's faults. They may be looking at their own wisdom, which is nothing in the sight of God, or their riches, or their husband, wife, son, or daughter, or their houses or lands, or to some pastor or teacher, or to be some great man of this world, and by so doing be lost eternally, because the Lord has said, "Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth."
They may think perhaps the Lord does not mean just what He says; but I firmly believe the Lord means just what He says, for He changes not, and is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.
O, so many of us are looking to the faults of our brethren and sisters, which the Spirit of the Lord has warned us over and over again not to do. If we can not see Christ in an individual, we had better not look, for, by beholding, we become changed. If Christ is not to be found in an individual, Satan must be there, and let us not look at him.
The Lord says that by beholding we become changed. . . . A Christian life is a Christlike life. A Christian is one who is continually walking in the footsteps of Jesus. I might just mention what F. W. Roberts says: "A Christian life is action; not a speculation, not a debating, but a doing. One thing and only one, in this world has eternity stamped upon it. Feelings pass; resolves and thoughts pass; opinions change. What you have done lasts—lasts in you. Thru ages, thru eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are."
Let us look unto Jesus who was despised and rejected of men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, who was despised and esteemed not, who hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.
Let us look unto Jesus who was oppressed and afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; who was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.
Let us look unto Jesus who was persecuted for righteousness' sake, and cast into prison, and taken from prison and from the judgment-hall; who was cut out of the land of the living by being nailed to the cruel cross; for the transgression of His people was He stricken. O, let us look to Jesus who made His grave with the wicked and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth. Let us look unto Jesus who was raised from the grave of the wicked by the voice of God, and who is now sitting at the right hand of God in the heavens above, making intercession before God the Father and pleading in our behalf.
Let us look unto Jesus who is able to keep us from falling, and to present us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding great joy.