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Weary — Part 2
“Looking unto Jesus … For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds” (Hebrews 12:3).
Are you weary? Maybe not physically, but spiritually? The remedy (at least in part), is in the first three verses of Hebrews 12. Sometimes we are weary because of things we are allowing in our lives that hinder us from running the Christian race. Sometimes it is because we are not focused on the Lord Jesus, who has lived here in this world, completed the path of faith in perfection, and is now seated “at the right hand of the throne of God” (verse 2). To “consider Him” is not just a casual glance now and then. It is to have real focus on Christ as our object. It is to see “no man, save Jesus only” (Matthew 17:8).
When we have Christ as our object, then we can follow the exhortation that we have later in Hebrews 12, “Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees” (verse 12). So, instead of giving up and saying that life is too hard, let’s refocus on the true object for faith … Christ! Then, and only then, can we “run with patience the race that is set before us” (verse 1).
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