I've started the race towards where God is leading me & I've seemed to get a side stitch. I'm slowing down because it hurts. My body is telling me to slow down & walk, or simply not finish [take the e a s y way out]. In my moments of doubt & pain the Coach called out to KEEP RUNNING...I KNOW IT HURTS, YOU'RE still GOING TO MAKE IT!
Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus [finish line], who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!
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