OUTLOOK
By G. W. S. Ware
June 6, 1937
Outlook: Prospect for the future.
Man has three outlooks: Spiritual, mental, and physical. Any less is abnormal, any more
is imaginary.
Man is endowed with a marvelous piece of mechanism. From its outlook, a fixed star can
be seen unnumbered billions of miles away, yet with it he cannot see another man two miles
from him without mechanial help. The outlook for the eye is of third importance to man,
because it wears out with use; and if not used, it becomes useless. The normal lifetime of
an eye is seventy years, which is not a drop in eternity.
The next outlook for man in value and importance is his mental one. Without it
man’s eye is useless, and his spirit cannot function in this world for God. When this
outlook is in disorder, all that is seen is of like nature--men and angels wobble, and
there is nothing straight. Men’s mental outlook, founded on self, will see things
which will draw him to destroy his spiritual outlook.
This spiritual outlook of man is the greatest gift received from God. Without it, the
other two outlooks will prove a curse to his destruction. Man’s spiritual outlook is
dead, Eph. 2:1. Not to believe this fact is proof that the one who says utm has a dead, or
is a dead, spirit in the presence of God; hence, he cannot see God, 2 Cor. 4:4.
When a person’s spirit is created in Christ Jesus, Eph. 2:10, it has eyes that
Satan blind or put out. Such eyes of faith can see all things God has promised to those
who believe His word and ask for them, then patiently wait, for God prepares us to receive
them.
A wise person will use his eyes, mind and spirit as outlooks to make his life a success
for God and himself.
If a man should say, "I shall not look out on life from any of these
outlooks," just as to say, "I shall live, and breathe no air."
