Page 3 - Harvest Connect Volume 23 - Issue 11

From the Head of Senior School
Mr Scott Carson
LOOKING FORWARD
Have you ever been distracted from your goal? Have you ever been tempted to look back instead of staying the course? Have you ever found yourself lacking motivation?
We all experience these situations from time to time, and the same is true for our young people. There are many things that would come against them in the form of disappointment, distraction, challenges, judgement, persecution and others. I have recently been reading
the book of Hebrews in The New Testament and have found great encouragement within this book. The book of Hebrews is written to encourage the first-century Christians who were tempted to go back to their old ways of Judaism to appease those persecuting
them and make it hard for them to live out their newly found Christian faith. It can equally encourage modern-day Christians and those contemplating faith. We read in Hebrews many exhortations to continue moving forward and not to look back or to go back. In Chapter 2, verses 5-7, the author declares ‘what is mankind that you are mindful of them, a son of man that you care for him? You made them a little lower than the angels, you crowned them with glory and honour and put everything under their feet’. This simple yet profound statement leaves me, and I am sure many others, feeling highly valued, highly favoured and deeply loved as we consider how our majestic and magnificent God in Heaven crowns each one of us with glory and honour.
Furthermore, we are told how Jesus was made a little lower than the angels for a time, even to the extreme of facing death on our behalf. Consequently, we have been made righteous if we receive this gift by faith, and Jesus can sympathise with our weaknesses as He became human while at the same time being fully God! He has broken the power of Satan and, ultimately, the power of death! Chapter 3 then tells us to fix our eyes on Jesus, our Apostle and High Priest. In other words, no matter what is going on, what you are going through, or the temptation to look back or to veer on the wrong path, we must fix our eyes on Jesus. There, as the words of the great song declare, ‘the things of Earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His Glory and Grace.’
Be encouraged whether you are a student, parent, grandparent, staff member, or connected to Harvest in any other capacity. ‘His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of Him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires’ (2 Peter 1:3-4).
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