MEAL FOR THE DAY Theme: Look And Live Text: Isaiah 45:22 "Look unto me, And Be Saved, all the ends of the earth: FOR I AM GOD, and there is none else".. Cross References; "And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a POLE, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he BEHELD the serpent of brass, HE LIVED“.(Numbers 21:9) “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the SON OF MAN BE LIFTED UP: That whoever believeth in Him should not perish but have ETERNAL LIFE".(John3:14-15)kjv I don’t know of any better way to make plain the importance or the meaning of this (Look and Live) than to tell you the story of Charles Spurgeon’s conversion. Here it is in his own words. The day was January 6, 1850. Spurgeon was not quite sixteen years old: I sometimes think I might have been in darkness and despair until now had it not been for the goodness of God in sending a snowstorm, one Sunday morning, while I was going to a certain place of worship. When I could go no further, I turned down a side street, and came to a little Primitive Methodist chapel. In that chapel there may have been a dozen or fifteen people. . . . The minister did not come that morning; he was snowed up, I suppose. At last, a very thin-looking man, a shoemaker, or tailor, or something of that sort, went up into the pulpit to preach. . . . He was obliged to stick to his text, for the simple reason that he had little else to say. The text was “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth [Isaiah 45:22].” He did not even pronounce the words rightly, but that did not matter. There was, I thought, a glimpse of hope for me in that text. The preacher began thus: “My dear friends, this is a very simple text indeed. It says, ‘Look.’ Now lookin’ don’t take a deal of pain. It ain’t liftin’ your foot or your finger; it is just, ‘Look.’ Well, a man needn’t go to college to learn to look. You may be the biggest fool, and yet you can look. A man needn’t be worth a thousand a year to be able to look. Anyone can look; even a child can look. “But then the text says, ‘Look unto Me’. . . . Many of ye are lookin’ to yourselves, but it’s no use lookin’ t https://www.instagram.com/p/B-q64g_lVSi/?igshid=i2glsizrzbd3
