Isaiah 8:16-17 English Standard Version
16 Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples. 17 I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
We are so blessed to be born in a time where much that has been foretold has happened. We are blessed to not only see the timing and the events, but we get to see His face.
People that lived in those times got to see Jesus face to face but few saw Him for who He was, the holy offspring, Emmanuel, God with us. Then His commission was complete that was spoken of by Isaiah and they saw Him no more.
We are so blessed to have never seen the face of the man and have come to know Him in His finished work. We did not suffer His death as they did, without seeing His glory unleashed. We see it from the position of His finished work. We are blessed by all the witnesses that came before us to show us His glory in man.
Hebrews 12:1-2 English Standard Version
Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
See “let us also”, as a clear sign that we are not alone and we will never be alone again. Much of what we are is because of those who came before us, that great cloud of witnesses. It is easy to get caught up in the struggle that comes with new birth that we feel like we are on our own.
We are not.