Friday, February 25, 2011

Resist

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood."
Hebrews 12:1-4


Jesus is the founder and perfector of my faith, and He endured the cross in all it's shame so that I wouldn't have to grow weary or fainthearted. Now my part is to lay aside everything that pulls me away from Him, to repent of the sin that I find temporary pleasure in, to actively pursue Christ with endurance, and to resist sin with every fiber of my being.

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