Heaven Land Devotions - What It Really Means To Run Your Race
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How often do multitudes of Christians sorrow in heart, feel unworthy and useless when it comes to the notion of running their race. They go about in a empty search, grasping at straws to find out what it means. They go about trying this and trying that. They apply one method after another. They join groups of people in prayer circles.
They try to keep a perfect church attendance record, and when they fail to make one Sunday, they feel like they have committed the unpardonable act. In everything they wind up empty and unfulfilled. Then they sink down into self deprecating despair thinking they cannot be used, and all joy of their salvation departs. Their walk becomes a drudgery rather than enjoying life in the Spirit in their respective lives.
There are many others in situations who are alone and in many various circumstances that prevent any chance of sharing the gospel, or in fellowship. They beat the drum of endless prayer to the Lord begging Him to use them. When years go by, they have journeyed through this earth, in a sad wandering thinking they were never good enough for the Lord to use, and accept that as the truth.
We are all in this race. Each one of us, and the way is set before us by the "Author and Finisher of our faith." The real race is not in high performance Christianity, but in the heart. In everything a person does being conscious of Jesus Christ "whose eyes are in every place beholding the good and evil." They give that glance upwards towards the Lord often throughout the day, with continual talking to Him about everything.
These people do not even realize the powerful relationship they have above all those who are burning rubber to read more books, attend more conferences, listening to endless lectures on theology.
These who live in the Lord in all things great and small, and in sickness and near death are those who are the real race runners who will enter into "a city made without hands, whose Builder and Maker is Gods." They are those who see eternity, embrace it and confess they are "strangers and aliens, and pilgrims of God." The mighty ones!