{"id":295,"date":"2014-03-01T21:32:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T21:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/?p=295"},"modified":"2014-03-01T21:32:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T21:32:40","slug":"the-race-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/march\/the-race-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"The race of faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we get to know God in all aspects of life; in the bible, prayer, in church, family and friends, we may come to turn that our faith is lacking. Many times the advice “have faith” is easier said then done. Some of us at time find ourselves strolling through faith and taking our time while there are others who each day are picking up their pace. Once you decide to believe you enter a race and not against others but against faithlessness. Depending on how you train your faith <\/a>can either stay in a steady pace, zoom with uncertainty or endure till the end.<\/p>\n

John 20:11-12 11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus\u2019 body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.<\/p>\n

Mary, John and Peter entered the race of faith. After receiving the message that the Lord’s body was stolen they found themselves running to the tomb. As Peter finds a cruising speed to run to the tomb, John sprints to zoom by Peter to running the fastest he could. Now, Peter’s cruising pace is reflective of that of one who is sure in himself. Peter is known to be short tempered and a tough guy<\/p>\n

John 18:10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest\u2019s servant, cutting off his right ear<\/p>\n

John’s character is known to be that of one who needed assurance frequently. His place of assurance was in Jesus’ chest.4.John 21:20\u00a0 Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, \u201cLord, who is going to betray you?\u201d) John’s reaction during the race for increasing speed was connected to his assurance place which was taken away via death and now for the second time from the tomb. His faith was based on a place of assurance. We all need a place of assurance but when those places are taken away faith needs to excel.<\/p>\n

1 Timothy 3:13 Those who have served well gain an excellent standing and great assurance in their faith in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n

Mary ran last. Her race was that of steadfastness She did not mind making it last because she knew that she was going to make it. David the Psalmist say in Psalm 57:7 My heart, O God, is steadfast, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and make music. When she made it to the tomb she broke down in tears in front of the tomb, but did not leave. Her faith is that of one who does not give up and walk a way like Peter and John. When Peter and John saw the empty tomb they walked away, but Mary remained. A matured faith wait past the expected time and waits. Mary saw the angels in the tomb; that same tomb where Peter and John had walked in, because her faith needed some answers and she was not about to leave until she got her answer;<\/p>\n

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we get to know God in all aspects of life; in the bible, prayer, in church, family and friends, we may come to turn that our faith is lacking. Many times the advice “have faith” is easier said then done. Some of us at time find ourselves strolling through faith and taking our time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-march"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}