Run with patience (1)
Daily Insight with God
Friday 19th June 2020
Text: Hebrews 12: 1-4
Topic: Run with patience
Key verse: And let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Heb 12:1b
The Christian life is synonymous to a long distance race. Long distance runners work hard to build patience and strength. On the day of race, their jerseys are usually light and at times their bodies are lean. The word race in the original Greek language means fight, conflict, contention, contest.
One of the things a Christian will contend with is besetting sins. This is the sin that easily trip a Christian up, the sin that a Christian is addicted to, his moral weakness. At salvation only the spirit is regenerated, it takes conscious efforts and diligence to get the body and the soul renewed by relying on the Holy Spirit as we yield our bodies and souls to him and resist sin like a fighter by exercising our will power in Christ who resist sin to the point where his blood was shed for humanity.
Failure to resist sin with the word of God will make us add weight and slow our walk with Christ down. This calls for diligence and patience in studying the word, praying, fasting when necessary, dropping some activities, friends and anything that may want to stir up our desire for sins.
Prayer: Father help me to patiently endure and run the race set before me to the end.
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