Our local paper, The Northland Age, has a column called “Matt Talks.” One of the recent columns started like this, “All eyes turn to South Africa this weekend.” It continued, “The biggest sporting event on Earth kicks off this Saturday. The World Cup soccer in South Africa begins and…”

The World Cup soccer may be the biggest sporting event on Earth. But there is going to be another event on this Earth in the near future. That event is the biggest event of all events. We are reading about that event in the Bible, the Word of the Living God. That event is the Second Coming of Christ.

As a German it is of no surprise, that I am a football fan. But I am getting on in years and I am not as enthusiastic as I was in my younger years.

I am reminded of the chorus of a hymn where it says,  “,….and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light and His glory and grace.”

Here is all of the chorus of the  hymn “Turn your eyes upon Jesus.”

“TURN YOUR EYES UPON JESUS,

LOOK FULL IN HIS WONDERFUL FACE,

AND THE THINGS OF THIS EARTH WILL GROW STRANGELY DIM

IN THE LIGHT OF HIS GLORY AND GRACE.”

The hymn has three verses and the author and composer of the hymn is Helen Howarth Lemmel . (1918)

The Bible, the Word of the Living God, is very clear about the Second Coming of Christ. Revelation 1:7 says,

“Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen.”

At the Second Coming of Christ “….every eye will see him, even those who pierced him;…” That’s why the writer to the Hebrews admonishes all of us, “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith,…..” Hebrews 12:2

LET US PRAY THAT ALL EYES TURN TO JESUS!

In Psalm 123 the Psalmist is crying for mercy. He says, “I lift up my eyes to you,……, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he shows us his mercy.” (Psalm 123:1-4)

GOD’S MERCY is the fulfillment of God’s promised kindness  ( Luke 1:54,72) through the saving work of Christ. (Titus 3:5-6; First Peter 1:3)

In Psalm 25:15  David says,

“My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only he will release my feet from the snare.”

Are your feet still in a snare? Look to Jesus!

And in Psalm 141:8 he says,

“But my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign Lord; in you I take refuge — do not give me over to death.”

ARE OUR EYES  FIXED ON THE LORD OR ARE THEY FIXED ON WORLDLY THINGS?