RUNNING THE RACE

Author joycelambertPosted on 61 Comments

We are given a course of life, our very own race if you will.

It is up to us if we are to go to the left or the right, slow down or speed up. To jump over hurdles or to knock them down, the choice is ours. Each of us have a certain set time to finish this race and the accomplishments we make along the way may not seem like much to us, but we have no idea the effect we have on others.

At this minute my mother is struggling for every breath she takes. I cannot tell you the number people who are praying for her at this very moment. She has a great cloud of witnesses around her. She has been living for Christ all of her adult life. How many people she has influenced in her Sunday School department, in the choir, in her mission circle or as the wife of an elder we may never know. But I do know, she has been faithful. She is also a prayer Warrior. She prays not only for her children or grandchildren, her great-grandchildren, her sister, but she prays for the children at church and the people on the prayer list and the life of church it’s self.

My mother has tiny little feet but enormous shoes to fill. Who is up to the task? Who will take her place in the choir and be faithful? Each of us have to search inside ourselves to find out if we are running our very best race? When we breathe our last breath will we have people say she lived or he lived for Christ?

As parents we need to teach our children that God has given us a precious gift called life. And whatsoever we do we should do to his glory and honor. We, each and everyone of us, have our very own race to run. No one can run it for us. Give your children the equipment they need to run their race. The Bible will give them the course and help them avoid the hurdles and then when the race is done they can pass the baton on to someone else.

We as writers have a race to run to the end of our stories. No one else can get in our head and finish it just the way we would have done. So we must run the very best race we can each and every day of our life.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:1-2

 

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