Now that we have moved into our new home, I started “Look up! Friday”. It is so easy to look down at the carpets and floors as they are so abundant in this house, that I kind of forget to look up to the light fittings and ceiling to clean out the cobwebs. Can you relate to that?

As I have shared in my previous post, my word for the year is “strength”. But how do I get strength? How do I rely on the strength of Jesus?

The first step is: look up!

Just like cleaning your home, if your vision stays grounded on the here and now, or on the things that want to overwhelm you; you won’t be able to clear out the cobwebs in your mind. You won’t be able to identify areas in your life that need a good cleaning. When you look down the whole time, you won’t be able to receive visions about the purpose of your life or see challenges out of a godly perspective.

“Look up! Fridays” reminds me:

• Keep my focus on the things of heaven.
• Keep on trusting that Jesus has the answers I need and he will not let me fall.
• To move forward in strength instead of staying stagnant in one place.

God has good plans for us. Plans to prosper us and give us an expected end. We can only access it by looking to the One who made us, loves us and saved us.

Is there any areas in your life where you need Jesus to dust your cobwebs? Spend time at his feet today. Be quiet and listen for his voice. Choose to let go of the unnecessary in order to embrace the future God has planned for you.

Sometimes the dusting of our cobwebs asks us to forgive someone or repent of our own sins. The journey will strengthen you and it has an expected end. One where you can stand blameless before God and spend eternity with him.

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12: 1-2 KJV

Journeying with you!

Catherina

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