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Pep Talk, Hebrews 12 Style
'Let us lay aside every weight' Hebrews 12:1
Imagine every day is Olympics 2012 day. Every day there is a whopping, solid gold medal awaiting you at the podium. The crowds are chanting your name, the commentators have you picked out, the cameras have you under surveillance. What do you do? You strip down, you start running and you don't quit.
You keep your eye on the finishing line, on Jesus. He's the trim, toned athlete who started this race and finished it with records, medals and victories. You get into His training regime - the highs, the lows, the cross, the shame.
When your faith has a stitch or your hope pulls a hamstring, you watch the repeats of Jesus hurdling His way through insults, high-jumping hostility and setting the pace from the front in times of trouble.
You let Jesus quench your thirst and rehydrate your soul. And when you feel like you can't move another muscle, when you've hit the wall- you remember your training.
Every Usain Bolt, every Paula Radcliffe has hit the pain barrier but run through it. Only the well trained win gold; only the well trained find themselves first on God's podium. And the tougher the training, the holier the living.
That's why we compete isn't it - to run our flat-out, holy best into the arms of the living God? So no more ankle dragging, no more tripping and traipsing, run like every day is 2012 day.
written by Bob Gass
'Let us lay aside every weight' Hebrews 12:1
Imagine every day is Olympics 2012 day. Every day there is a whopping, solid gold medal awaiting you at the podium. The crowds are chanting your name, the commentators have you picked out, the cameras have you under surveillance. What do you do? You strip down, you start running and you don't quit.
You keep your eye on the finishing line, on Jesus. He's the trim, toned athlete who started this race and finished it with records, medals and victories. You get into His training regime - the highs, the lows, the cross, the shame.
When your faith has a stitch or your hope pulls a hamstring, you watch the repeats of Jesus hurdling His way through insults, high-jumping hostility and setting the pace from the front in times of trouble.
You let Jesus quench your thirst and rehydrate your soul. And when you feel like you can't move another muscle, when you've hit the wall- you remember your training.
Every Usain Bolt, every Paula Radcliffe has hit the pain barrier but run through it. Only the well trained win gold; only the well trained find themselves first on God's podium. And the tougher the training, the holier the living.
That's why we compete isn't it - to run our flat-out, holy best into the arms of the living God? So no more ankle dragging, no more tripping and traipsing, run like every day is 2012 day.
written by Bob Gass
