No Coasting Allowed!
"Let us run with endurance the race that
is set
before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and
finisher of our faith."
Hebrews 12: 1-2
Earlier this year at Faun-Ardèche Classic bicycle race
in
France, the leading group of riders went in the wrong
direction near the end. Cyclists were sprinting toward
victory when they took the wrong turn at a roundabout,
allowing Romain Grégoire of France to claim the victory.
Each of us wants to finish the race well. We don’t
want wrong turns near the finish line. Someone
called this “long-distance Christianity.”
Leighton Ford wrote, “God has a purpose in and for
our aging. That purpose has to do with the hidden
life of the Spirit so that, as the body grows older,
our spirit may grow deeper
and stronger."
"Our ongoing calling, in
later years as in earlier years, is
to die daily, perhaps even hourly, with our Lord, and to
realize (especially in our later years) the reality and
power of his death and of his resurrection.”
Ask God to help you stay focused on the goal of the
Christian experience rather than becoming distracted
by the things of the world. Look to Him today!
"Live ready to go when
Christ comes for you."
J. I. Packer
