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Fix Our Eyes on Jesus
Fix Our Eyes on Jesus
Jeremiah 2:23-29 & Hebrews 11:29-12:2
The Christian life is not a sprint, but it is a marathon. But what does it take to get to the finish? The lectionary reading for this week takes us to a passage that speaks of running the race marked out for us.
The passage shows us what has to take place if we are to reach the “joy" at the end. This sermon’s focus is where to fix our eyes…on Jesus. Our eyes are fixed only on him because he is the originator and the finisher of our faith.
However, in order to fix our eyes on Jesus we have to link faith and obedience, calculate the value of joy, and realize the source of power. Every runner knows these things to be true. This knowledge also leads to a grace of knowing you aren’t running alone. And that there is one who has gone before you and his joy is to bring you through to completion; to be with him.
But what assurance do we have that this joy will remain? That the cost of the run will be worth it? We have the certainty of a promise from God’s word, the Word that is both a fire and a hammer, cleansing and constructing along the way. A word that is not a mere abstraction, but is solidly fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who is none other than the Word made flesh.
The joy that was set before him, the reason he endured the cross and despised its shame, is his people. In them he greatly delights. For this reason we fix our eyes on Jesus. He who has made us his joy has to become our joy if we are to finish the race marked out for us.
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By Grace Church (그레이스 교회)Fix Our Eyes on Jesus
Jeremiah 2:23-29 & Hebrews 11:29-12:2
The Christian life is not a sprint, but it is a marathon. But what does it take to get to the finish? The lectionary reading for this week takes us to a passage that speaks of running the race marked out for us.
The passage shows us what has to take place if we are to reach the “joy" at the end. This sermon’s focus is where to fix our eyes…on Jesus. Our eyes are fixed only on him because he is the originator and the finisher of our faith.
However, in order to fix our eyes on Jesus we have to link faith and obedience, calculate the value of joy, and realize the source of power. Every runner knows these things to be true. This knowledge also leads to a grace of knowing you aren’t running alone. And that there is one who has gone before you and his joy is to bring you through to completion; to be with him.
But what assurance do we have that this joy will remain? That the cost of the run will be worth it? We have the certainty of a promise from God’s word, the Word that is both a fire and a hammer, cleansing and constructing along the way. A word that is not a mere abstraction, but is solidly fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who is none other than the Word made flesh.
The joy that was set before him, the reason he endured the cross and despised its shame, is his people. In them he greatly delights. For this reason we fix our eyes on Jesus. He who has made us his joy has to become our joy if we are to finish the race marked out for us.