keep your eyes to the skies!!!

Acts 7 .55 'but Stephen full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. Look he said 'I see heaven open and the Son of God standing at the right hand of God.'

Even in the face of death and chaoes, even when surrounded by the enemy and pressed on all esides, Stephen was still looking above, still looking to the Lord, continually seeking the face of Jesus and not looking away and being lost in the fears and storms around him. C.S. Lewis talked about how when we look up to heaven , and when we keep our thoughts towards heaven it completely affects the way we walk on this earth. Before we can get to the place where Stephen was, of being completelyt focussed on the Glory of God that death pales and fades away because all he see if Jesus, before we get to that place we need to have our heads raised high to the sky in every situation of our lives, in the little stressful moments and in the darkest hours may we keep out eyes raised towards the heavens and may the Lord protect our eyes from being blinded by the thick darkness, but instead may we look up and see the glory of the Lord.