Run the Race

Okay, so the Olympics are done and we won... a bunch.

You know the Olympics were talked about in the Bible....Really.  Hebrews 12:1 says ...

12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

Well, maybe not, but seriously how many of you start something without seeing it through to the final outcome?  I almost always start the day in prayer in the Jacuzzi while watching the sunrise, but all it takes is a singing bird,  ice crystals up in the stratosphere, or a cat jumping up curiously to see what I'm doing to get off tack...You get the idea, I am easily sidetracked and distracted.  Would an Olympian running running a Marathon stop to smell the roses, sign autographs etc?

You and I run the race for the prize that lies ahead, even when we get off track and lose our way we are not lost; just need to refocus and fix our eyes on the prize.  Even when we stumble and fall don't stay there, get up the race can still be won.  His grip is sure, there's no letting go today, no way.

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