“Let this be your motto and your guide” by J.C. Ryle

“Oh, keep your eye steadily fixed on Christ, and you shall go through fire and water and they shall not hurt you.

Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus.

Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus.

Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus.

Do you feel cold, dull, backsliding? Look unto Jesus.

Never say, ‘I will heal myself and then look unto Jesus, I will get into a good frame and then take comfort in my Beloved.’

It is the very delusion of Satan.

But whether you are weak or strong, in the valley or on the mount, in sickness or in health, in sorrow or in joy, in going out or in coming in, in youth or in age, in richness or in poverty, in life or in death, let this be your motto and your guide— ‘LOOKING UNTO JESUS.‘”

–J.C. Ryle, The Christian Race and Other Sermons (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2024), 147.