The Great Example of Faith!

The Great Example of Faith!

“Father, into your hands I commit my Spirit.”

As I read the quote this time,

One of many,

I thought of its significance.

Jesus, I thought, is the great example

Of good character.

What, then, is the significance of these words?

“Father, into your hands I commit my Spirit.”

He spoke, we are told in loud voice.

Loud voice is not necessary to speak to his Father.

The Father hears his thoughts before they are thought.

He and the Father are one.

Then the thought came to me.

It is a model of faith He demonstrates

And communicates,

For those within the sound of His voice!

To commit ones Spirit, and yield it up, at the time of death,

To the Father demonstrates great faith.

Jesus, God’s only Son, willingly dying on the cross,

Giving his life, at the will of the Father,

Believing that God, the Father would raise His Spirit.

That is great faith!!!

Thus He became the first to be raised, the first of many, we are told..

God is faithful to His promise!

Christ demonstrated with these words

The essence of faith!

Timothy exampled this same faith as he was stoned.

His words were

“Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Jesus, and Timothy, and all those

Who have come to faith in God’s

Great gift of His Son

Start the process of faith

At the point when they say

I believe, help my unbelief.

Abraham demonstrated the beginning of faith when God

Asked him to come and go to a place I will show you and he went..

Elisha demonstrated it when he gave up a large farming business

And followed Elija into prophetic ministry.

Hebrews 11 lists many others.

And there are many more –

And at the end of life’s days

In full faith

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Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit.

Billy R. Masten

01/05/14