Looking Up and Lifted Up
J. S. Drummond. Isaiah 45:22 Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. In Mrs. Fletcher's biography she tells us of a convert who had a strange dream. He thought he was down a very steep well in the night, and, looking up, he saw a single star shining far above him, and it seemed to let down lines of silver light that took hold upon him and lifted him up. Then he looked down and began to go down. He looked up and began to go up, and he looked down again and began to go down; and he found that by simply keeping his eye on that star he rose out of the well, and his foot stood on the firm ground. A parable is in the dream. If you look down, you go down; if you look up, you go up. There must be first the looking up before there can be the lifting up. (J. S. Drummond.) Parallel Verses KJV: Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. WEB: "Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.