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To Behold is to see or look at; to see means to; perceive or detect, witness or observe by personal experience, to understand, to meet or visit.

It is a known fact that what you see at all times or look at has a way of influencing your life. Many times, it can become the very drive and controller of our being.

This is because “the eye” is a gateway to the soul of man. This eye is not just the physical eye that consists of the retina and cornea. Sight is not just of the eyes, but also of the mind. The interpretation of what a man get from seeing is dependent on the state of mind. For example, one who keeps exposing his mind to pornographic materials will definitely become addicted to immorality.

You as a son of God, thus, your gaze should continually be on God; always beholding. It is in this beholding that you come to know God, study his principles, understand his ways and government, have personal experience building convictions of your faith and become a witness that can stand strong at all times.

Hebrews 12:2a
[2] Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. (Amp)

Hebrews 12:2a
2We look away from the natural realm and we fasten our gaze onto Jesus who birthed faith within us and who leads us forward into faith’s perfection. (TPT)

The answer to your complains about not understanding God is spending time in God’s Presence, gazing at His word and glory. It is not something you should do once; it is a continuous process.

The things of this natural realm tend to stand as a distraction between you and God. Scriptures admonish us not to pay attention to these things. The worldly and natural standards, ways of life shouldn’t be our concern, the gaze of our heart must be set on God.

Like the Psalmist, we must lift the eyes of our heart from the concerns of this world unto the Heavenly hills where the Lord dwells.

2 Corinthians 3:18
And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit. (AMP)

In the above scripture, what happens when one constantly beholds God is revealed. When you spend time beholding and gazing on God’s glory through His word, an inner transformation begins to take place – we become transfigured more and more into His likeness.

Do you know what that means?

You begin to manifest His nature; it becomes your way of life; it is a state whereby everything about us is immersed into God and everything about God is immersed into us.

The more we see God, the more we get our minds enlightened and our hearts flooded with truth.

How do we behold God?

You don’t behold God’s glory by staring at the sky, trying to imagine what God looks like. You behold by staying in the Word constantly. When you do that, The Holy Spirit begins to open you eyes to understand who God really is. Meditate on the knowledge and understanding that you get from God’s word, when you do that, it sinks into your heart and becomes a conviction. This conviction about God is what will determine the quality of our Christian living.

Written by:
Chidimma Blessing.

One of the greatest weapons Satan uses against believers today, is condemnation.

It is a strategy the devil uses to keep Christians in the dark. He uses it to weigh them under depression.

When a believer is listening to the condemnation of the devil, he feels he is the greatest sinner in the world.

Such believer falls into the depressive mind-set that he has committed the unforgivable sin.

Romans 8:1: ‘There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.’

In Christ, we are free from condemnation. No matter what we did in the past, we are guiltless before God.

If we are still under the condemnation from our sins, then the coning of Jesus was in vain.

But praise God it wasn’t! Jesus came to free us from the condemnation and judgment that awaited us because of our sinfulness.

Whenever the memory of your sins come, push them aside with the memory, that it was for those sins that Jesus died on the cross.

Here’s what God is saying about your sins;

Hebrews 8:12: “And I will forgive their wrongdoings, and I will never again remember their sins”

Psalms 103:12: “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He {God} removed our transgressions from us.”

If God does not remember your sins, why do you allow the memory of your sins to weigh you down?

We still struggle with guilt because we have failed to look into God’s Word and believe what it says concerning us.

We have failed to realize that Jesus bore both our sins and guilt on the cross, so we wouldn’t have to bear them again.

The devil keeps hitting us hard with feelings of guilt, condemnation and rejection so that we will never have enough confidence to fulfil our God ordained destines.

He knows if he can keep us under the bondage of condemnation, we will never be a threat to his kingdom.

But now is the time for us to know that we are, ‘the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus’.

We are no longer sinners. You are not a sinner. Stop calling yourself a sinner. That is not who you are.

This is who you are;

1 Peter 2:9: “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light”

Whatever it is you are going through now, believe and trust God about it and He will surely help you out of it.

But never you judge yourself by your mistakes and shortcomings.

Believe and receive the Love of God into your heart.

Guilt wears one out but God’s Love strengthens and renews one.

Child of God, God loves you eternally!

About the Author Tolu Taiwo Victor is a student, writer and Christian enthusiast. He’s among the youngest of prolific Christian authors in Nigeria.