Lift Up Your Eyes and Look...

After Lot had separated  from Abram, God started to reveal to Abram regarding His promises. The name Lot in its root word means veil... So, in Abram's case, when Lot departed from him (when the veil was taken away from him) , God began to reveal to him the spiritual things...  

2 Corinthians

3:15 ~ But until this day, when Moses is read, the veil is on their heart. 

3:16 ~ But whenever it turns to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. 

3:17 ~ And the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 

Thus, in our dispensation of grace, if we are covered by a veil, we are unable to see because our spiritual eyes are covered. When we are able to read the Old Testament to find Jesus in them, such insight is the evidence that the veil has been taken off our face... it is the evidence that we are able to understand the spiritual things...and wherever you see the Spirit of the Lord in the Bible, there is liberty. 

Genesis

13:14 ~ And after Lot was separated from him, Jehovah said to Abram, Lift up your eyes now and look from the place where you are northward and southward, and eastward and westward. 

13:15 ~  For all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your seed forever. 

 View from 16th Floor of Kasuma Resort, Kuching.

When Abram looked from northward and southward, and eastward and westward, his sight was actually creating  an invisible cross. Northward and southward made up the vertical  part of the cross while the eastward and westward made up the  horizontal part. From the beginning to the end, God is very consistent in His conduct... He want us to focus on the cross where Jesus finished His work!

So, if we can see the cross and the finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ, the promise in verse 15 is ours...  i.e. For all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your seed forever. Of course, He is not talking about the land where we look from the 16th Floor of Kasuma Resort but the LAND in His Kingdom... the LAND of all blessings!

It is the old concealed and the new revealed! It is all about His finished work, even in Abraham's time...