Running the Race

At church today, we watched a short video that showed a high school boy with cerebral palsy. Though he was physically limited and fell at times when running, he was determined to run for the high school cross country team. Despite several falls he eventually completed the race. Many people were in tears by the end of the video to see the young teen so determined and persistent to finish the race.

We as Christians are running a similar race. We are continuously falling down, offending God in the things we think, do, and say--glorifying our flesh and not our Lord and Saviour. However, we are able to get back up again thanks to the blood of Jesus Christ! When we decide to let Christ into our hearts and wash our hearts in his blood, Gods angels rejoice and celebrate our arrival to his Kingdom. In Hebrews chapter 12, it reads: "wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witness, 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 to Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith."