RUN YOUR RACE

Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 361
January 9, 2018///

It is alright not to be number one. As Georgia fans yelled a loud OH! NO! Alabama won over us in overtime. However, both were great teams, and both played as hard as they could.

It was a lot of hard work and an honor to be able to play in that game and I, for one, am very proud of their accomplishments.

As I consider this I realize that in the spiritual realm it is also ok to not be number one. It is even ok to not be number two or three or on the down the line. What is important is that you run the race that you were created for.

Hebrews 12:1 (KJV)
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,

There was a great cloud of witnesses at the Ga/Ala game last night. And they were loud. May I tell you that as we run the race set before us, heaven is cheering us on and getting loud with encouragement.

But!!! I don’t win, I’m not number one in what I do. My question is: are you running your race? Are you conforming to the image of Jesus Christ and going for the goal that He has set for you?

Or are you so busy looking at others that you get off course and try to run the race you are not created for.

Just imagine in last nights game if players started switching sides based on who was ahead in points at that time. It would have been a chaotic mess. Not only that the players had to stay in their position.

Are you staying in your position in the Lord Jesus Christ? Are you running your race or are you so focused on others accomplishments that you get all messed up in your decisions and get in the wrong lane, headed toward the wrong goal.

Whose race are you running? Who are you listening to? What is your motivation?

RUN YOUR RACE!
LISTEN TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD WITHIN YOU!
LET YOUR MOTIVATION BE TO PLEASE ALMIGHTY GOD!

There are some lines of a song that make a very powerful statement about our lives and how to find real joy by running our race.

“But to give the things you cannot keep for what you cannot lose
That’s the way to find the joy God has for you.”

This life is temporary, but eternity is real. To run your race and give all you are to fulfill the plan God has for you will bring true JOY!

If we just stay in our lane and run our race, when we are drawing our last breath whether we are number one or one hundred, we will be able to say with the Apostle Paul:

2 Timothy 4:7 (KJV)
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

May we all desire that we can live life that way. I have said it before and I will say it over and over, we must live life with an eternal perspective.

Run your race with patience and endurance and change your world. If that leads to you being number one, wonderful but if not remember:

IT IS OK NOT TO BE NUMBER ONE!!!!
JUST RUN YOUR RACE!!!!

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Father, thank you for your love and your plan for each person who reads this. May we see with spiritual eyes the enemy who will try to pull us from our race and set us on a coarse that will not fill us with the joy God has for us. Touch each of us in the deepest part of our being and we bask in your Love and the truth of your will.
Amen!

Have a great race!
Love, MeMaw