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So we fix our eyes not on what is seen

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen


"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen—but on what is unseen.
  For what is seen is temporary—but what is unseen is eternal!" 2 Corinthians 4:18

The men of this world fix their gaze on things below—and their desires are bounded by the limits of time and sense.

But the people of God look beyond the things that are seen—to the things that are not seen; for they know that "what is seen is temporary—but what is unseen is eternal!"

My soul, be it your employ to look by faith at the things which cannot be seen by the eye of sense. Turn away your eyes from beholding vanity—to the glorious realities of the world to come. Fix your gaze upon the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God—upon the inheritance which is incorruptible and undefiled, and that never fades away.

Look chiefly on eternal things
—and so will you be enabled rightly to view the things of earth, and safely to pass through the things which are temporal. All that is beautiful and pure of present things—you will then regard as emblems of the glorious realities to come. And all that is evil and sinful—you will loathe, as utterly opposed to the excellent things your affections are set upon!

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