The first letters of the following responses tell us something that a believer should keep themselves in, while looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. [3] Numbers in brackets indicate the number of words in the answer.
1. One whose wife lost her life through a backward look. [1]
2. Something man looks on, in contrast to God, who looks on the heart. [2]
3. How did the man who called himself “the Preacher” describe all the works that he had seen done under the sun? [5]
4. To what extremity did the one and only God extend this invitation: “Look unto me, and be ye saved”? [4]
5. Something a believer should not be looking on, but rather on the things of others. [2]
6. Something that was set up on a pole for the healing of everyone who looked on it. [2]
7. A word used to describe the appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, that blessed hope for which believers should be looking. [1]
8. Something Abraham did by faith when he was called to go out into a place which he would later receive for an inheritance, since he looked for a city whose builder and maker is God. [1]
9. Seeing believers look for new heavens and a new earth wherein righteousness dwells, what should we be, that we may be found in peace, without spot, and blameless? [1]
Answers to these questions will be found, Lord willing, in the next issue of Christian Shepherd.
J. Short