Only Jesus
This phrase echoes throughout my mind and sinks down into my heart recently; this phrase smothered between the idea, the thoughts, the pondering of the race we have been called to run here on earth, until our very last day, our very last breath.
“Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith.” Hebrews 12:1-3
Life as I know it has come with a scope of experiences, emotions, circumstances, and thoughts that have all been rolled up and twirled around together. I have experienced in life some darkest of darks and some highest of highs.
God is gently refining my soul to see all that life is; all that this race has called us to endure can only be held through what He speaks to me now… “only Jesus.”
Every moment, every stride we take forward in this race is meant to be done side by side with Jesus. The next mile marker or our proximity to the finish line is not where He is asking us to place our gaze. No. On the contrary, He is asking us to fix our eyes on Him while attesting to the very fact that we are in a race of endurance until the very end.
The shifting of seasons is relentless, inevitably coming and blowing in like wind, holding only what was meant for us to endure at each stride. As each season blows in, as things shift and change, we can move through it. But how?
Only by Jesus.
“Jesus is ultimately the focus. In light of the footrace metaphor, the idea here might be that Jesus, who pioneered the course of the faith, awaits believers at the finish line.” (Faithlife Study Bible Commentary)
Seeing, embracing, grabbing hold of with an unrelenting grip, that this race can only be done with Jesus; this truth allows us to have a slice of “your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven” in the here and now.
You see when this footrace is over, when we have taken our last step, what beholds us there is Jesus.
In Christ,
