“Therefore let’s, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and sin which is so easily entangled us, and let’s run the perseverance the race that is set among us” Hebrews 12:1
The Bible uses running a race to describe the life a follower of God should live. We are to discard hinderances, fix our eyes on Jesus and run with perseverance to finish our spiritual race God had set before us.
We are encouraged to finish the race with perseverance as we go through trials and remember the faith of those who came before us and focus on Jesus’s example of enduring the cross with joy that was set before Him.
The race is not a sprint, it’s a marathon that requires endurance, discipline, and commitment.
We are called to throw off everything that hinders us and the sin that can easily entangle us. It involves getting rid of distractions and everything that slows down our spiritual progress.
Jesus is the pioneer and prefecter of faith. He should motivate us to endure. He is our ultimate example.
We are not running this race alone, the Bible teaches us that we are not running this race alone. The people of faith from history like Abel, Enoch, Noah, and Abraham should encourage us to preserve, according to Hebrews 11.
This means running with endurance we should continue our race in faith, in our daily walk with God even if we don’t feel like it. This involves staying faithful to God’s calling through trials, difficulties, and opposition. We should view our trials with an eternal perspective, which can help us endure this life, because there is a promise of eventual gain.
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