THE UPWARD VISION

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He was just a little boy but he was a very wise little boy.

He would have liked to have lived on a hill overlooking a harbor where boats moved in and out and at night with their beautiful lights reflecting off the shifting waters.

He would have liked to have been able to sweep his eyes across a valley and watch a lovely lake in the distance or a river winding its way across the landscape.

But he couldn’t. His view was a dirty rusty railing and beyond that the broken windows of his neighbors who lived beyond their broken brick walls.

He was surrounded by slums and slobs and sin and the noise of fights often reverberated from below.

But he didn’t mope. He didn’t shout out complaints into the night. He simply lay back and looked up at the stars.

He had learned quite early in his life an important lesson.

He had learned the secret of “the upward vision.”
PSALM 147:4
”He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by
name.”

ISAIAH 40:26
” Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all
these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls
them each by name. Because of his great power and mighty
strength, not one of them is missing.”

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