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Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus!
- Ronald Bainbridge
- Sep 30, 2025
- 5 min read
Friends, the purpose of Discovering A BETTER LIFE MINISTRIES is to provide seeking men and women with words of Encouragement and Hope, as well as empower believers in Jesus Christ around the world, to recognise, experience, and celebrate their oneness with all others who know Jesus as Saviour and Lord, regardless of denomination, church fellowship, or historic tradition.
(Stories of: Real People, Real Events, Real Places)
They provide Spiritual FOOD FOR THOUGHT
to HELP People Find PEACE and HOPE,
Along with the Meaning and Purpose
For A BETTER LIFE with Jesus Christ
(John 10:10; 14:1-6; Acts 2:36-47; 1 Peter 2:9 )
Today’s Message of Encouragement from
Discovering A BETTER LIFE MINISTRIES
JESUS IS
IS
SOMEONE
FOR
EACH OF
US!
Friend, Harvard Psychiatrist, Dr Robert Coles, has spent much of his professional life studying children from very poor homes. In 1979, Dr Coles and his son visited one of Rio de Janeiro’s shanty towns, where the people had no electricity, no heating, no plumbing, no water, and no medical care.
Within sight of these people was the famous statue of Christ the Redeemer, which overlooks the city of Rio. Dr Coles asked a mother living there what she thought of the depiction of Jesus in the monument. She replied: “I look at Christ every day—over there, across the city, on the hill. I think about how hard his life was; he was crucified, even if he was God. No, he was crucified because he was God! Oh, I can’t figure out why he was crucified. I can’t figure out why I was born so poor. But I do know this: Jesus is someone for each of us! He lives in my heart. It is best to remember that, and I do. He loves us, the poor, and he lives!”
Friend, that mother from Brazil’s slum, more eloquently than any preacher, shows that the power of Jesus transforms the lives of all who trust and obey him. He is: “someone for each of us!”
Sometimes people talk to me about feeling alone. They want to know where God is when they are hurting. I can only respond that God is in the same place he was when his son died. He is watching, identifying, and enduring the death with the one he loves. On the cross of Jesus, God allowed himself to be crucified.
Close your eyes. Visit Calvary for a moment. You see a rejected, writhing, abandoned figure on that cross. Nails cruelly pierce his hands and feet. His body has been severely beaten. He is bruised and bleeding. Blood drips from the jagged thorns circling his forehead. And yet, he hangs there willingly.
“THE WAY OF SUFFERING”
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Friend, you are watching an involved God in action. After that scene, all human suffering must be understood in the light of God’s suffering. The cross gives meaning, hope, and new life to those who suffer. When we want to cry out that “God doesn’t care!” or that “God is immune to pain!” we are brought again to the foot of the cross to see the truth.
When we genuinely take the time to consider the significance of the tremendous sacrifice Jesus Christ made on our behalf, so that we might experience the beauty of forgiveness for our sins and the hope of eternal life, we are reminded that the cross and resurrection hold the key to the mystery of suffering. Something occurred in those two events that forever affects human suffering. God “broke the power of death and showed us the way of everlasting life”
(2 Timothy 1:10).
There is no better teacher than someone who knows what they are talking about because of suffering in their own life, and someone who loves you and will patiently work with you until you, too, can understand the mystery of suffering. Jesus meets all these criteria to be our perfect spiritual example and mentor.
The writer of the book of Hebrews says that Jesus came to earth to be near us and to identify with us. He suffered because it was appropriate that a Saviour suffer with suffering people. Then, when believers suffer hardships,
they know they have a Saviour who really understands what they are going through (Hebrews 4:15-16).
THEN HE BOWED HIS HEAD AND DIED!
(I Peter 1:18-25)
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No other act, event, or movement in history was more responsible for the birth of Christianity than the sacrifice of God's Son. Obedient to His Father's will, Jesus hung from a wooden cross with thorns piercing into His flesh, as He suffered and died for all mankind.
This, my friend, is why Jesus, who offered himself so willingly as a sacrifice for mankind’s sin, is Lord! He understands the human situation totally. He didn’t have it easy. He knew severe suffering. He cried out for relief. He trusted God when it was dark, and He didn’t fully understand.
This is why I accept him fully as my teacher and my example in many areas, but especially in His suffering, which reminds me that God is willing to forgive each of us, because His judgment on sin was satisfied by Christ's death on the cross of Calvary.
TURN YOUR EYES UPON JESUS!
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“When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss
And pour contempt on all my pride.
Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That was a present far too small.
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all!”
Today, I urge you to reflect on the wonderful fact that the Lord of glory willingly emptied himself of the glory he enjoyed with his Father. He descended from glory to bring life to us. He lived and died. Then he ascended to glory. It seems such a simple story!
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Today, friend, we encourage you to place Jesus at the Centre of Your Life.---We guarantee you will not be disappointed!
Jesus at the Centre!
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