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January 26

As I’m sure you can appreciate, walking through a jungle can be a very dangerous activity. I read somewhere of an ingenious way some of the natives have devised to keep tigers from sneaking up from behind them in a jungle environment, which tigers are prone to do. They simply wear a facemask on the back of their heads.

None of us really wants to act two–faced or be seen by others as two–faced, but it would be handy, from time to time, to have a pair of eyes in the back of your head.

This very month of January, of course, suggests it. January was named for the old Roman god of beginnings, Janus, who was represented with two bearded heads set back to back—one looking forward, the other behind. However, a major difficulty we experience in this life when we look back is the realization that although we can look back, we cannot go back, and when we look ahead, we simply cannot see around the corner. May I suggest that there is another place to look that is better by far.

The prophet Isaiah was out looking at a changing sky one darkening night:

Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name . . . Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. [And this] Those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint (Isaiah 40:26, 28, 31).