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“Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.” –Hebrews 12:1-3,
NKJV
Faithfulness is God’s idea. Jesus Himself is the author and
the finisher of our faith. He invented our faith. He sustains our faith. He
finishes our faith. Our faith has its being and its completion in Jesus.
Our relationship with Jesus, our faith in Him, as well as
our lives, can be complex and challenging. God calls us to live our lives, to
run the race, with endurance. We are to live our faith looking to Jesus. He
alone will enable us to live out our faith.
It is Jesus who is the author of our faith. He has initiated
a relationship with us. As it says in 1
John 4:19, “We love, because He first loved us.” God has invented our
faith, He invites us into it, He has crafted it, spoke it into being
poetically, written it out creatively, scripted it and brought it to life through
His dramatization of it.
It is Jesus who will finish our faith. He will bring our
faith to completion. God finishes what God starts. God is working in us and
will complete His work of faith in us. As Paul said, “I am sure of this, that
he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus
Christ” (Philippians 1:6,
ESV).
Prayer: Jesus,
you are the ‘author and perfecter of our faith’. Lord Jesus, it was fitting for
you, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, to bring your children
to glory, as the captain of our salvation, perfectly through your own
sufferings and sacrifice on our behalf. Help us to run this race of faith and life
with your endurance, trusting in you alone to be the finisher of our faith.
Amen.
(Prayer adapted from Hebrews 12:1-3, NASB, and Hebrews
2:10, NKJV).
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