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  LOOKING TO JESUS
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Looking to Jesus and fixing our minds on Him is a powerful way
to overcome sin and deepen our understanding of Him.

Topics: "Jesus Christ", "Spiritual Growth"
Scripture References: Luke 24:32, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Hebrews 12:2, 2 Peter 3:18

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of growing in the grace
and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, urging believers to
focus on Jesus during the period of Lent by immersing themselves in the
Gospels and seeking to understand His life fully. She highlights the
transformative power of fixing our minds on Jesus, allowing Him to draw
near to us and change us into His image. Tileston contrasts this
approach with physical austerities or spiritual self-reproaches, stating
that true change and victory over sin come from looking to Jesus.

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Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To
Him be the glory both now and for ever. Amen. 2 PETER 3:18

Did not our heart burn within us, while He talked with us by the way,
and while He opened to us the Scriptures?

LUKE 24:32

NOTHING could make the period of Lent so much of a reality as to employ
it in a systematic effort to fix the mind on Jesus. The history in the
Gospels is so well worn that it often slips through the head without
affecting the heart. But if, retiring into solitude for a portion of
each day, we should select some one scene or trait or incident in the
life of Jesus, and with all the helps we can get seek to understand it
fully, tracing it in the other evangelists, comparing it with other
passages of Scripture, etc., we should find ourselves insensibly
interested, and might hope that, in this effort of our souls to
understand Him, Jesus Himself would draw near, as He did of old to the
disciples on the way to Emmaus. This looking unto Jesus and thinking
about Him is a better way to meet and overcome sin than any physical
austerities or spiritual self--reproaches. It is by looking at Him, the
Apostle says, "as in a glass," that we are "changed into the same image,
as from glory to glory."

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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