Sunday, December 8, 2013

The Author and Finisher of our Faith

Heb 12:1  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,
Heb 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith…


Lay aside every weight and the sins that we so easily commit.
And let us run with patience the race of life.

As any runner will tell you if they carry extra weight it's going to make the run all that much harder. Some runners purposely add extra weight to burn calories and add more muscle to their bodies. Other runners are burdened with extra weight by others to slow them down.  Carrying the extra weight of sin does NOT build muscles or help our appearance in any way. Carrying the extra weight of sin burdens us we have to LAY aside EVERY weight. We have to lay aside EVERY sin and then run!

To do this we MUST look to JESUS!

Jesus is the AUTHOR and the FINISHER of our FAITH.

The AUTHOR or our FAITH.

If you're an author you are a creator. An author creates, yes? 

If I'm an author then I've created a story, fiction or non-fiction, if I create that book I've authored it.  Jesus has authored OUR faith!

Jesus has created our faith.

Not only has He begun our faith He will also finish our faith, He IS our faith!

We hope to lay aside the weight of our sins that would keep us from running the race before us with patience, but the only way that is possible is through JESUS.  We must trust this-

Php 1:6  Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ

Satan wants us to get caught up in whether or not we've been able to rid ourselves or all our sins. He'll point out every sin that we haven't been able to lay aside for very long. I say 'for very long' because when we ask our Savior to forgive us and seek to go and sin no more, with a sincere heart within us we are LAYING aside every weight, every sin. We don't pray that prayer and expect to sin the very next moment.  (And if you do, right away pray again, and again, and again!)   As a rule most people after asking for forgiveness and sincerely seeking repentance, not desiring ever again to sin, do not expect to sin in the next moment. We are laying aside the weight. We are asking for the faith NOT to sin and that power of faith can only come from our SAVIOR.

We have to ask always! We can never get to a place where we are not seeking our Savior to save us. 

Please LORD, the Author and the Finisher of our FAITH, please keep us in YOU. Keep us realizing that You and You alone can save us from our sin, the sins that so easily beset us. We choose to give You our lives, please Lord, do with us as You will! Save us from ourselves. Do all for us that we cannot do for ourselves, and help us do for ourselves what You ask us to do.  You are our everything!

Love us LORD, know us, save us, keep us, be the author and the finisher of our faith.

All by YOUR GRACE!

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