Looking Unto JESUS
" Let us run with patience the race set before us." — Hebrews 12:1 [KJV] A lively faith begets a cheerful heart. A joyful hope makes a resigned soul. An humble mind produceth a patient spirit. So we run with pleasure our short race, "looking unto Jesus." But alas! shame to us, there is a sin which easily besets us and which draws a train of burdens and distresses along with it. Why are poor disciples' minds harassed by frequent murmurings and impatience? Why their tempers soured with evil passions, and they utter hasty, angry, unbecoming speeches? Verily, UNBELIEF is the cause of all this. Their minds are clouded; they do not see Jesus; they do not consider Jesus as seeing them; they do not look to Jesus for patience: hence Satan gets an advantage over them: pride begets impatience of spirit. Then, with fretful Jonah they cry out, "I do well to be angry." Well, soul, and how do you find your mind after doing thus well? what is the fram