Life is what it is. We do not ask to be born, yet here we are. We cannot request where we are to be born or to whom. It is what God has decided. The best we can do is to "run with patience the race that is set before us”.
So, why should we be “looking unto Jesus” to author and finish "our faith"?
Jesus became a human being just like us. He had to run the race just like us. Jesus suffered in this life and experienced some joy like all humans. He was the first human to be resurrected after death, never to die again. I believe Jesus will return and raise me and my family. That is my faith, and I am therefore depending on Jesus to finish what I am expecting in faith.
"For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters...It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—MORE THAN THAT, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?...I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons...nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:29-39)
So I run my race as best I can, forgetting the blunders I make, and focus on my eternal destiny provided by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, especially in times such as these when trouble seems to be overwhelming the world and false saviors rise up seeking followers.
"Forget the past and look forward to what lies ahead...hold on to the progress we have already made...we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for Him to return as our Savior. He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like His own..." (Philippians 3:13-21)
Look unto Jesus!