Looking Unto Jesus

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 26, 1907

Looking Unto Jesus

WE are exhorted to run with stedfastness the race that is set before us, “looking unto Jesus,” but many know not where to look in order to see Jesus. Looking unto Jesus is not an aimless gazing into vacant space, not a mere rhetorical figure, but rather beholding him where he is, and in the work he is doing for us. The very scripture which urges us to look to Jesus declares that he “hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God,” and in another place we learn that he “sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.” Jesus now ministers in the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary, and those who look unto him now should by the eye of faith see him there accomplishing the final work of atonement in the cleansing of the sanctuary, making our worship and service acceptable to God through his own merits and righteousness. Looking unto Jesus means something definite, and those who find him where he is will receive the blessing needed for the experiences of this time. “Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!”