Jesus -- Our Everything

"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)

Jesus Christ is indeed the Author and the Finisher of our faith.

Yet the way some believers live, they act as if His power is good enough for salvation, but as for living on the earth, we are on our own.

Yet nothing could be further from the Truth (John 14: 6):

"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4: 17)

By His faith, we live (Galatians 2: 20)

Let us look again at the first two verses of Hebrews 12.

"Run with patience" -- this is not a race that we are trying to win, because in Christ we are already more than conquerors in Christ (Romans 8: 37) and we are always triumphing in Christ (2 Corinthians 2:14)

The "patience" has to do with laboring to enter the rest of complete provision and victory which is in Christ Jesus (Hebrews 4: 11).

"Looking unto Jesus" -- we do not look at or get discourage about what's going on around us. We set our eyes on what is above (Colossians 3: 1-3), to Jesus in whom we are justified, protected from all condemnation, from whom we will receive all things (Romans 8: 31-32)
Do you know how great He is? Paul outlines Jesus's majesty for us. We have entered in to His Kingdom (Colossians 1: 13), we have redemption and forgiveness of sins in His blood (v. 14). He is the image of the invisible God (v. 15). He created all things and all powers(v. 16). He is the first and all things exist through Him (v. 17). He is the head of the Church, the Body of Christ (v. 18)

He made everything, He has everything in His control, and He cares for you!

See Jesus as your everything, and in Him everything you will receive!