Jesus Is Our Compass!
"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 has sat down at the right hand
of the throne of God."
Hebrews 12:2
Before the age of GPS and satellite navigation, wilderness
explorers used a compass to find a way. Once the compass
indicated the direction, the trick was to look into the distance
and pick out a landmark, tall
tree, a structure, or a mountain
peak, then walk to it. That way, detours and diversions were
not disasters.
The writer of Hebrews used a similar method for navigating a
Christian life in our world: “Looking unto Jesus, the author and
finisher of our faith.” Other modern translations say “keeping
or fixing our eyes on Jesus” (NLT), an exact parallel to finding
landmarks in a distance and hiking toward it. While landmarks
in the wilderness change, in the Christian life our landmark is
always same: Jesus, because He is “the author and finisher”
of our faith. We begin and end our journey with Him.
Fix your eyes on Jesus today and you
will always be on the path to His kingdom.
"All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass,
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners."
Archibald Alexander
