The things we cannot understand.

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,  looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:1-2 KJV).

  Death can come along as a surprise.  An accident can change our plans and hopes forever.   Heartaches and losses can stagger us as we long for understanding. Death often times leaves things unfinished.   In those times we must trust in the promises of the Living Word of God.  We go to our Redeemer, our Savior. 

    We see life as unfinished in our losses because that is all we can see with our human hearts. So we must  go beyond our sight and put our trust in what we cannot see.  We go to our Savior with what is unfinished because He is the Author and Finisher of our faith.  We see things as unfinished but Jesus Christ … not only creates our faith but also sustains and finishes our faith. It is in Him that we must now trust.

    As a follower of Christ, what death leaves unfinished becomes finished in the joy of the presence of the Risen Lord, the King of Kings for eternity. Life is finished as faith as it is becomes joy in eternity.  The  ultimate goal of our Christian faith is the eternal healing of having the blood of the Lamb not only covering us but flowing through us as eternal life.  So lay aside every weight and every sin and come unto Jesus with all of heart that you might be totally His. He is the living hope because He is the Living One.

    What then shall we say to these things that hurt deeply because we cannot understand them? We say what God has given to us, through the promises of His presence through all things including what may seem unfinished.

“What can we say to these things?  If God is for us, who can be against us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Selected verses from Romans 8)