Looking Unto Jesus...
No, I'm not just stealing the blog title from someone who hasn't posted much recently. Hebrews 12:2 tells us the necessary component of running the faithful Christian race. Beginning in vs. 1: "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."
The previous chapter tells us story after story of men that ran their races faithfully - full of faith. In order for us to run faithfully, we need to simply look unto Jesus. Hudson Taylor said it better than I can, so I'll just quote him:
"How then to have our faith increased? Only by thinking of all that Jesus is and all He is for us; His life, His death, His work, He Himself as revealed to us in the Word, to be the subject of our constant thoughts. Not a striving to have faith... but a looking off to the Faithful One seems all we need; a resting in the Loved One entirely, for time and for eternity."
Just a thought...
Andy Hinds
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