Daily Affirmations - Day 3 - Fixing Our Eyes - Keep Heaven in View
- Alisa B.
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Day 3: Keep heaven in view
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ… (Philippians 3:20).
“Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent” (from the prayer of Jesus to the Father – John 17:3).
If our citizenship is truly in heaven, we will carry the atmosphere of heaven with us wherever we go, and heavenly flowers and fruits will grow about us which but for us would not have been there. There is no more infallible test of the reality and the power of our spiritual life than in the measure of heaven we bring down into this world’s life.
“Is the world better or worse where I tread?
What have I done in the years that are dead?
What have I left on the way as I passed—
Foibles to perish, or blessings to last?
Whose is the love-voice I hear as I go?
Whom do I follow through weal and through woe?
Of what is my sword-blade—of gold or of dross?
What is my standard—the world or the cross?
How do I choose when the heart’s sacred cry
Crosses the will of my Christ?—bid it die?
What do I do when the world’s flowers are sweet—
Stop in my race for the flowers at my feet?
Where are my scars from—siege upon siege,
Loyally fought in the cause of my liege?
What is my watchword, my passport, to show
The cause I contend for, the way that I go?
Are my steps onward, forever ahead,
Never turned back to some hope sin has fed?
Am I a soldier, and what is my aim?
Have I left in my footprints the light of Christ’s name?”*
~ James R. Miller, One thing I Do
*Miller's citation for this poem/hymn is unclear. Likely author: French Earl Oliver
Pilgrim of Jesus, o’er life’s troubled sea,
Courage, and onward pursue;
A crown of rejoicing is waiting for thee,
Ever keep heaven in view.
Pilgrim of Jesus, what saddens thy brow?
Are not His promises true?
How needless thy sorrow, He’s bidding thee now,
Ever keep heaven in view.
Pilgrim of Jesus, oh, lift up thy head,
Ask and thy strength He’ll renew;
And, while in the footprints of Jesus you tread,
Ever keep heaven in view.
~ H. R. Jeffrey, pub. 1885
