Live looking up

Faith is not just something you watch in the movies like the pop culture setter "God's Not Dead" or the biography-inspired flick "Faith Like Potatoes". Faith is not just something you listen to no matter how many Christian albums from different Christian bands you have in your mp3 player or iPod playlists. Faith is not just about the religious books you read, it's not even about the bible itself but on the One whose Words are being contained on its pages.

Faith is about a person. Faith is about Christ.

Knowing where your faith is grounded to is pretty much important in determining whether this faith is really worth it. People have the tendency to depend on someone for affirmation, beliefs, values, confidence and even a sense of wholeness. We're relational beings. And in matters of faith, we get relational with the wrong things and persons. So we get disappointed when promises are not fulfilled, we get pained when expectations are not met, we get discouraged when situations get tough. These happen when we put our confidence--and faith--on ephemeral things and flawed people like you and me.

But the person of Christ is the fulfillment of a great promise in itself. He is our firm foundation where we can stand and never be shaken. His person is our source of faith, our eternal confidence. When we focus on Jesus Christ our faith gets confirmed by His character and through the promises He has made.

That's why the scriptures says that we are running a race for Someone who has already gone ahead of us; Someone who already finished the race Himself. Our task now is to keep running with endurance and live looking up and "fixing our eyes on Jesus Christ, the Author and Finisher of our faith..." (Hebrews 12:2)

Live looking up!