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Sitting and meditating on God’s goodness and grace which I have been able to experience first hand all through the years I’ve been blessed with on earth. Sometimes the thoughts alone are not even enough because a humans’ thinking capacity is simply not enough to quantify the greatness of God.
In the life of a Christian, everything is not always as rosy as we sometimes think it to be. There are several challenges that we are faced with that will surely shake the very foundation of our faith. That very foundation we built by spending countless hours in Sunday school, listening to different tapes and reading books from men of God. Just when we thought we could face any circumstance and stand strong in the midst of the storm, something comes to test our faith.
Suddenly we find ourselves questioning the very carefully outlined principles with which we programmed our mind and body to act whenever the storms of life come. Guess what? God still remains God, despite the hard times we go through and major challenges we face. As Christians sometimes we can all agree that the journey towards the mark of the high calling might be overbearing to a point where we feel we actually begin to question our faith, but when times like this come around, all Jesus is screaming out to you is Look at me! I am the Author and finisher of your faith (Hebrew 12.2).
Now what does an author mean? In simple English terms, an author is the writer or creator of a Story. In other words, God steers the direction of our faith and puts it in places where we will need it exactly, which means whenever we need faith to kill sin, Jesus steers our faith in the right Direction and gives us what we need to be able to handle that situation or any other situation. That being said, there is a special grace to handle every circumstance we find ourselves in.
Now Hebrew 12.2 also talks about Jesus being the finisher of our faith. It is common knowledge that not every author of a book gets to be the person to conclude it. Sometimes death or any other unforeseen circumstance can occur and hereby deter an author from finishing a story, which makes it possible for someone to be an author but not THE finisher. But when we have the creator of heaven and earth as the author of our faith you can be rest assured that he will bring everything to an expected end with a perfect finishing.
The Amplified version reads:
“Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the leader and the source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its’ Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection].
This is the type of faith that Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego had when they refused to bow to the King and said “But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.” The type of faith that makes you understand that your belief in the word of God is not only tied to physical manifestation, but relying solely on the word of God. A faith that has been finished by the testing and purifying by fire, which explains why Jesus was there with them as the fourth man in fire to establish the finishing of their faith having been brought to full maturity hallelujah!. Their faith had been tried, and brought to maturity when they decided to stick to God’s greatness and defy a great earthly King who could only but destroy their mortal flesh.
When a book is finished, the reader is expected to gain a full understanding and knowledge of the purpose to which the book was written for in the first place. This was and is the original plan of the author.
In our daily walk with God, we often times fall short and let go of all we held dearly unto at one point. We might have even been crucified in the Church, scorned by the very people we called family, but in all these trials God did not change from being the omnipotent God neither did he change from being the Almighty. He remained God.
This walk with God is not an easy one, because many great people have fallen short of the glory of God because of their lack of faith. They connected their belief and based it mainly on manifestation and miracles which means that when things are not showing or connecting as they desire, they immediately stop believing and start doubting God’s ability. The good thing is that during this walk with of faith with God, while we are taking baby steps God guides us throughout only and only if we are truly willing to give him full control and let him steer our faith himself instead of choosing the situations we need faith for and the ones we choose to handle ourselves.
** God is not too far away from you that he will not hear your cry. It does not matter how far you may have drifted away from faith in him, he is ever present to reconcile your faith in him. Give him a chance today. Be blessed.
Post by: Kio-Harry Stanley
For: Sitamka
SITAMKA 