A Christian was passing through a town where there was a fellow believer, and he called to see him and asked him how he was getting on in the things of God. His cheerful and happy reply was, "I am looking up."

This little sentence was overheard by a young man whose conscience was at once stricken and he said to himself, "I am looking down." From that time he had no rest until a short time after he too was led to look up and "See Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man" (Hebrews 2:9). And now by grace he was delivered from this present evil world, brought out of darkness into the marvelous light. It was no more, "I am looking down," but "I am looking up"—"looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith," the One who saved me from my sins and brought me to God.

How is it with you, reader? Are you one of those poor, unhappy ones who are looking down, like the beasts that perish? If you are, may you be aroused to your lost condition and not be satisfied until you have by faith looked to Jesus. The unbeliever looks down—the believer looks up.

If you have up to this time been grovelling down here, why go on? Jesus bids you look to Him. "Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else." Look and live—they go together—you cannot have eternal life without looking to Jesus, and you cannot look to Jesus without having eternal life.

—Glad Tidings