Fix Your Eyes

What are you here to do?  Hebrews 12 says "Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." That’s right, God has a specific purpose for your existence.  A race that He’s marked out for you.  But how do you know what that is?  Where are the markers?  The passage goes on to say… “let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.”  Our purpose can be discovered by allowing Jesus to author and perfect our faith.  An author writes a book.  Jesus wants to write your faith, and perfect it.  We keep our eyes fixed on Him, even though He’s invisible.  We can do this by reading the words He said, and following His example in the way he lived.  You see John 1 tells us that Jesus is the Word of God.  So fixing your eyes on Jesus can mean studying God’s word.  We need to be sure of what we believe before we can live our purpose for God.  In studying and learning, and allowing the Word to author and perfect your faith, that is, what you believe, you will infact begin to clearly see the race that has been marked out for you.  Now all you have to do is run your race with perseverance, and with that, I need to quit now..