Lift Up Your Eyes
John 6:25-59
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by Stephen M. Crotts

During World War II a delightful Christian English lady kept a personal diary. It tells of her husband's death in the war effort. It tells of food rationing and the horrible bombing of London . It tells of her children's evacuation to the countryside. One night during the bombings the woman confessed that she woke up and could not get back to sleep. She kept thinking of Hitler, invasion, and the S.S. troops. She trembled until she suddenly thought, "Where is Alexander the Great who gobbled up the world? Where is Caesar's dogmatic rule upheld on the tips of spears? Where is Napoleon? They are all in their graves and come to naught," she wrote. "And that is where Hitler will be, too. The same God reigns!" And she rolled over, laughed, and went back to sleep! The Mid-East, terrorism, crime, abortion is this what your eyes are upon? Are you gazing at the world, and only glancing at Christ? Rise above it! Lift up your eyes and see! The same God still reigns. Be assured!

CSS Publishing Company, Inc., Sermons for Sundays after Pentecost, by Stephen M. Crotts