Hebrews 12:1🏃

 

I am not a runner.  In fact, I have never had the urge to run a race, albeit on a track team, sprints, or anything else having to do with running.  Maybe that is because I don’t remember ever seeing a runner with a smile on their face.  Hey, but that’s just me. 

 However, Scripture tells me that I am not to avoid running.  I Corinthians 9:24 tells me that all runners compete, but only one receives the prize.  Therefore, I am to run so that I obtain the prize.

Then there is Hebrews 12:1 that says I am to run the race set before me with endurance, laying aside every weight and sin that clings closely to me, always looking to Jesus, who is the founder and perfecter of my faith.

 I recently heard the phrase, “I want to be running when the sand runs out”.  It pierced my heart strings!  Am I at this point in my relationship with Jesus Christ?  Do I want, more than anything, to run the race until completion, so that I obtain the prize?  If not, what do I need to change to make this happen?  Food for thought.

 My thoughts and actions should be saying, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7).🏃🏃