Friday, October 11, 2024

Focus Your Faith

Charles Spurgeon wrote, "If you look to Christ at the beginning of your Christian life, but then begin to look to yourself for its continuance to the end, you will fail. Jesus is the Alpha (the beginning), and be sure you make him Omega (the ending) as well." Focus your faith not on yourself, but Jesus our Lord.

Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2). Focus your faith upon Jesus by trusting him to do in you, what you cannot do for yourself. Focusing your faith upon Jesus dying for your sins and risen from the dead is believing the gospel (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Then, you are saved and begin to live the Christian life.

Focus your faith upon Jesus by trusting him to continue working in you. Living your Christian life is knowing Christ works in you to please God (Hebrews 13:20-21). Indeed, Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of every Christian's faith. He who began the good work in you will continue until the day of completion (Philippians 1:6; 2:13). 

Continue focusing your faith upon Jesus, and one day your faith shall become sight. Understand that's the day when you see him face to face. You shall be glorified into his likeness (Romans 8:30). "We shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:2). Your Christian life is faith focused upon Jesus Christ until that day.