Whenever you are traveling rapidly through a part of the country, your eyes have very little time to rest upon the different things you see. Likewise, men are very busy today and have very little time to consider what really matters. This is why death, judgment, and Eternity make no real impression on men's minds today. Men don't take time to rest their eyes on the Bible, the Gospel, the Savior, the Blood, the Cross. Most people never stop to think about Reality; they hurry along and never consider the brevity and frailty of life, and then they suddenly find themselves in Eternity undone forever. More souls are lost through want of consideration than any other way. Take some quality time to consider those things which are needful. The reason men are not awakened and troubled concerning their souls, is because the world and the devil never give them time to consider. Man's eye is fixed anywhere but on Christ; they are always looking to themselves, other men, this world, and they have no heart and no time for looking at Christ. Stop sinner, stop and think. Consider your ways, consider your latter end, but most of all consider Christ Jesus - God manifest in the flesh who bled and died to satisfy Divine Justice on behalf of guilty sinners just like you. The devil is always beguiling men away from simply looking and trusting to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
Consider Christ Jesus. Jesus was with God in Eternity. See John 1:1-3; Proverbs 8:22-23,30; John 1:18; John 17:5,24. Jesus is God who was manifest in the flesh. See Philippians 2:6; I Timothy 3:16; John 1:14; II Corinthians 8:9; Hebrews 1:3; Colossians 1:16. Jesus is now in Eternity - See Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25; 10:12; 12:2; I Peter 3:22; Colossians 3:1. Jesus undertook the cause of poor lost sinners. He put Himself in the sinner's place on Calvary's Cross to suffer all they should suffer, and He obeyed all that they should have obeyed. Consider Jesus - Look long and earnestly to Him alone. Entrust your case to the great Mediator between God and men. Christ's Blood Atonement is enough to satisfy Divine Justice; your sins must be forgiven freely; Jesus is the only Savior for sinners. This is good news for sinners - Christ died so you could be freely forgiven through childlike faith in His Precious Blood. Jesus undertook the cause of guilty, lost sinners. He bore the Curse and completed the obedience that the Law demanded. If you have ever tried to keep the commandments of God, to keep your eyes from unlawful desires, to keep your tongue from slander, gossip, and bitterness, to keep your heart from malice, envy, and covetousness, you found it to be impossible for you are a sinner to the core. You found that to try and stop sinning is a horrible struggle.
Consider Christ Jesus - Look long and earnestly upon His bleeding wounds, by His stripes ye are healed of your sinfulness and guiltiness. It will be safe to trust Him. His sufferings and obedience are enough to save your soul. Look to Jesus for complete assurance of eternal life through His finished work. It is good and wise to consider your ways, but it is far better to consider Christ's Blood and Righteousness. Christ Jesus is only safe place for the hell-deserving sinner to rest. Rest your soul upon Him. He tasted death for every man. He is the Atonement for the sins of the whole world. God gave His Son, Christ gave HImself for us. Jesus offered Himself up as the perfect Sin Offering to satisfy the demands of God's Holiness, for you, and reconcile you back to God. Don't wait a moment longer. Heartily take Jesus Himself to be your Sin-Bearer, receive Him as your Savior, and He will take away your sins instantly, and protect you from God's Divine Justice forever.
When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained; What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him? Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of His doing. The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider Thy testimonies. Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness. If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not He that pondereth the heart consider it? and He that keepeth thy soul, doth not He know it? and shall not He render to every man according to his works? The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it. Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider. When the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened. Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him, Christ Jesus, that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
