A CHRISTIAN was one day passing through a town in Ireland, and coming to a house of business where resided a fellow believer in the Lord Jesus, he called to see him, and asked him how he was getting on in the things of God.
His reply was, "I am looking up.”
This little sentence was overheard by a young man on the premises, whose conscience was at once stricken, and he said within himself, "I am looking down.”
The Lord from that time began to deal with him, and he had no rest until he was brought to Himself, to know the joy of looking up to Him, and praising Him for thus, through His grace, delivering him from this present evil world, and bringing him out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:99But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: (1 Peter 2:9)). It was no longer, "I am looking down," but, I am looking up," looking unto Jesus, the One who had saved him from his sins, and brought him to. God (Eph. 2:1313But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:13)).