Monday, June 1, 2015

Fix your eyes on Jesus

Hebrews 12:1-3

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

This weekend I watched my oldest niece graduate from High School.  She reminded me so much of myself.  She was certainly one to live as she believed and not go with the flow that is often pushed on a young lady her age.  She didn’t have many friends and worked hard at school, in choir and as a Lansing Police Department Explorer.  Furthermore, she was active at her church and the youth group.  She will be a student this fall at Great Lakes Christian College in Lansing as well.

I truly believe that she lives as we are instructed to do so here in Hebrews 12, she throws off everything that hinders her and the sin that could so easily entangle and she runs with perseverance the race that has been marked out for her. 

I see the woman of God that she is becoming and I pray that in addition to the way her parents have raised her, that maybe, just maybe, I too have been an influence on her in some small way.  I pray that I am running the race set out for me the way that Christ would want me to. 


Who sees your race and says that you have your eyes fixed on Jesus as you are running?

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