Look at Christ

“They will look on the one they have pierced” (John 19:37b).

One of my favorite bible stories as a child was the story of Peter walking on the water. Besides Jesus no one other than Peter knows what it’s like to walk on water. As you all know, Peter was walking on the water but as soon as he took his focus off of Jesus and on the waves and the storm around him he began to sink. Jesus needed to rescue him.

I love that story. Because that’s how life sometimes feels. Everything is going well and then a phone call, an email, a note, an encounter and all hell breaks loose. And we begin sinking.

That’s the way faith works. When our focus becomes anything other than Jesus, we begin sinking.

Jesus is our only and our absolute hope. The great reformer Martin Luther said, “When I look at myself, I don’t see how I can be saved. But when I look at Christ, I don’t see how I can be lost.”

I love that.

“They will look on the one they have pierced.”

Life is hard? Look at Christ.
Life is difficult? Look at Christ.
Life is confusing? Look at Christ.
Life is painful? Look at Christ.

The One hanging on the cross is none other than the Son of God who is there on your behalf. There is nothing under heaven which Christ would not do to ensure your place in God’s kingdom.

Look at Christ.