Sometimes memories flood my mind. My memory this morning is of my children and grandchildren running track. I guess looking at old pictures brought back these memories.
I realized that each of them had a different race or event—- the 100 yard dash; the 200; the 400; the hurdles; the mile; the 2-mile; the long jump; the pole vault. Through the years I watched them participate. Sometimes they won and sometimes they did not. But I remember that they all did their best each time.
These memories bring to mind a lesson in life. I realize that we all have a race to run. The race that God has placed before us. We are not always the best; we are never as good as we want to be; we can always find someone that seems to have it all together when we don’t.
“However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me–the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.” Acts 20:24.
God doesn’t want us to always feel we need to be as good as someone who is more mature in his faith. He wants us to begin where we are and run the race that is before us, always striving for the finish line, always running to Him, always running FOR HIM.
We can then say: “I have fought a good fight; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith; now, there is in store for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will reward to me on that day.” 2 Timothy 4:7.
Have a blessed day!
In Christian love,
Diane