Faith is messy.
“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith…” (Heb 12:2 NIV)
Have you ever tried to written something? You know, like a story.
You write a first draft getting the shape of the story onto the page. You then add to it as you come up with the second draft. Then you spend time with it; reading and re-reading it. You think about think about what you were trying to achieve when you wrote it, and then you change things around; some parts are scrapped [sometimes because they are rubbish but most of the time because they just don’t fit in and a distraction to the narrative], others are rewritten and still others are restructured. At last a final draft, but what a lot of time and effort it has taken – perhaps more than when you wrote the first draft.
Writing is messy; you are always restructuring, deleting some parts and adding to others. Sometimes what you end with seems like it is a million miles away from what you began with, but the essence behind it remains; its purpose is the same.
Life is not too dissimilar to this. The writer of Hebrews reminds us that Christ is the ‘author and perfecter’ of our faith. Every day he is writing more and more in our lives; some things he will removes and some things he turns around or adds to. An author like Christ will never leave anything half-written, incomplete or full of mistakes; he will keep working on you always. However, our lives are not like pages of a book, static and unresponsive to the authors hand; we respond to every touch of Christ, sometimes [when we are full of ourselves] we reject his corrections and at others we celebrate with delight new passages that he adds.
“The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD.” (Job 1:21 NKJV)
How will you respond to the author today? Will you accept his perfecting?
Have you ever tried to written something? You know, like a story.You write a first draft getting the shape of the story onto the page. You then add to it as you come up with the second draft. Then you spend time with it; reading and re-reading it. You think about think about what you were trying to achieve when you wrote it, and then you change things around; some parts are scrapped [sometimes because they are rubbish but most of the time because they just don’t fit in and a distraction to the narrative], others are rewritten and still others are restructured. At last a final draft, but what a lot of time and effort it has taken – perhaps more than when you wrote the first draft.
Writing is messy; you are always restructuring, deleting some parts and adding to others. Sometimes what you end with seems like it is a million miles away from what you began with, but the essence behind it remains; its purpose is the same.
Life is not too dissimilar to this. The writer of Hebrews reminds us that Christ is the ‘author and perfecter’ of our faith. Every day he is writing more and more in our lives; some things he will removes and some things he turns around or adds to. An author like Christ will never leave anything half-written, incomplete or full of mistakes; he will keep working on you always. However, our lives are not like pages of a book, static and unresponsive to the authors hand; we respond to every touch of Christ, sometimes [when we are full of ourselves] we reject his corrections and at others we celebrate with delight new passages that he adds.
“The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD.” (Job 1:21 NKJV)
How will you respond to the author today? Will you accept his perfecting?
-Andrew Carey
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