I’ve been thinking about what the key factor is in me staying the course and finishing the good fight and running the good race, like the apostle Paul talks about. What will it be?

Will it be my willpower? Not hardly, I find out time and time again that my will is weak and I am easily prone to temptations and indifference.

Will it be all my activities and Bible studies and Christian events? No. More knowledge is not the answer unless that knowledge goes from my head to my heart and transforms the way I live.

Will it be having all the correct doctrines and beliefs? Again, I doubt it. Those who knew the most about religion in Jesus’ day were the ones who most vehemently opposed Jesus and had Him killed.

Well, then. What will get me home? What will get you home? I suspect that you are like me and you have fallen and sinned way too many times to keep count. All your activities and all your knowledge haven’t gotten you where you need to be. What then?

The answer is Jesus. Jesus and Jesus alone will get us home. It’s not going to be because we had such admirable and overwhelming faith in Him, but because He kept His promise that He gave when He said He would never leave us or forsake us, that He wouldn’t lose even one of those the Father gave Him.

The older I get, the more I realize how much I need Jesus. Not just for when I was lost and needed a Savior, but now when I’m weak and need Him to be my Strength, when I am speechless and need Him to be my Voice, when I am blind and need Him to be my Sight. He’s everything I need to get me Home and He Himself is the Way I will get there.

Jesus, be everything that I can’t be in me to all those you have called me to love. I confess if you’re not holding me up every second, I will fall. I know you won’t ever let me go. Let the rest of my life be a gigantic “THANK YOU!” back to You for all You are to me. You are my Life.

Thank You!