Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering.
But before that, let us rewind a little bit back to the previous chapters.
Hebrews 10 says in verse 22 and 23
22Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
Humble beginnings.
Let`s have a little recap about our very first encounter with Christ Jesus. How was yours like? I fully remember mine; it was during a camp for kids, held at our local church. I was 10. Every summer there was this kid`s camp at church, and of course, being a sunday school teacher`s daughter, I had to be there, I had to attend every summer. It didn`t feel like a torture though, to me, it was just any other ordinary camp. A routine I used to do every summer. But age 10 was different.
Everything seemed different although everything was just like the routine I used to attend to when I was younger than 10. Well, yeah, like that. I can picture out a vivid image of the exact scenario: friends laughing, the altar being opened to the kids, and staffs were laying their hands on kids.
I was there. I was one of the kids whom they were laying their hands on. Even up to now, when I recall that very exact day, I still feel all giddy inside and I still have goose bumps. It was just like yesterday when I tried holding back my tears in the altar. It was just like yesterday when Jesus whispered clearly in my ears that he loves me. It was just like yesterday when I gave my life to Jesus.
A very humbling encounter.
That was the day I saw the Light.
It changed everything.
We all have our fresh starts, well for some who doesn`t have one yet, God is preparing you for one and eventually, soon you will be experiencing one. The world has all those substitutes to offer us and to rob off the real deal that God actually wants for us. And in those times that we entertain the false joys and false hopes that the world is offering us, we eventually need to stop, pause for awhile, and listen to the sweet voice of Jesus. How? We just need to turn down the volume of the world so we can hear what the voice of Truth is saying.
We need to look back to the day when God has found us every time we're losing it. The strength that very same experience would give us is the strength that would motivate us not to ever give up on ourselves and on God. Sometimes, when we`re so caught up in doing work for Christ, we eventually forget about how we got there. We need to remember why we`re serving God in the first place, why we gave Him our lives, why we`re moving forward towards the goal. We need to remember that very humble beginning, that love you have for Him.
The kind of love that is so strong, so motivating -- He wants you to remember that love you first had for him that time He found you and that time that you surrendered your life to Him. The very kind of love that is so childlike, that same faith that you would fight for. But you know what would make Him more happier?
Double the love you first had for him that very same time He found you drowning in your failures and never ever subtract anything from it.
Remember your humble beginnings; without Him there`s nothing to live for. But He died for you so you would have Someone to live for.
He is our life.
That Son of Man who died on the Cross.
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
