Be Thou My Vision

Eyes Fixed On Christ: Relying On God’s Guidance

by Associate Pastor Tom Yarbrough 

It’s already February, but it’s not too late to be intentional about how you want your 2025 to look. The new year is a natural time to evaluate current rhythms, habits or motivations and engage in planning from a financial, educational, career or health perspective. But if we recalibrate these other areas of our lives without considering our spiritual vision, we are essentially working blind, without any vision. Why is vision generally important? Because what or who we fix our eyes on will determine where we go, and this is true for the believer and non-believer alike. Our lives—how we spend our time, energy and resources—are a bit like travelogues. We can look back at these things and read the story of where we have been. Why is spiritual vision specifically important? Because for the believer, these travelogues also serve as worship reports. They reveal what is most important to us. Let me reiterate that this is not simply reflected in our checking accounts but in our recently watched lists, the stacks of books on our bedside tables; our liked social media posts, our Amazon shopping carts and wish lists, and perhaps most of all, our calendars. Where do we start? Read the full article.

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Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art
Thou my best thought by day and by night,
waking and sleeping, Thy presence my light.

Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
I ever with thee and Thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, I Thy true son;
Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.

Be Thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight;
Be Thou my armor, be Thou my true might;
Thou my soul’s shelter, be Thou my strong tow’r,
O raise Thou me heav’nward, great pow’r of my pow’r.

Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise,
Thou mine Inheritance, now and always:
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
High King of heaven, my Treasure Thou art.

High King of heaven, my victory won,
May I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heav’n’s Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
still be my vision, O Ruler of all.

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