When God blessed Abraham, he asked him to look up:
He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
(Genesis 15:5, NIV)
When God’s angels came to visit, Abraham he only saw them, because he looked up:
Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
(Genesis 18:2, NIV)
When God proclaimed a blessing about children, he urges us to look up.
Lift up your eyes and look around; all your children gather and come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the Lord, “you will wear them all as ornaments; you will put them on, like a bride.
(Isaiah 49:18, NIV)
When Jesus needed multiplication power from the father, when he fed the masses, we are told:
Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.
(Mark 6:41, NIV)
For eternal life, Jesus tells us the father’s will:
For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
(John 6:40, NIV)
Where are you looking?