Do not, therefore, abandon that confidence of yours; it brings a great reward. For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. For yet “in a very little while, the one who is coming will come and will not delay; but my righteous one will live by faith. My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.” But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost, but among those who have faith and so are saved. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval. (Hebrews 10:35-11:2, NRSV)
Endurance is what is needed in the race.
I know this better now than ever before. You see I do not think I am a runner. But I am doing a running club with my children. We are preparing to run a 5K (3.1 miles) and a 10K (6.2 miles). We have run for the past 3 weeks now and started at .5 miles. We have as of the date of this post gone 2.5 miles. And tomorrow we will run 3.0 miles… Now I have not run before but I can see a difference by staying the course and following through on the days of running. Endurance is what keeps us going, and this is true for running and life…
You see in life it is easy to give in and throw in the towel as the pressures of life close in on us.
We just want to give up.
And stop.
Just like me when I’m running.
I hear the banter in my head…
Why are you running…
It would be so much easier to walk…
what do you have to prove…
you’ve walked further than this already today…
And if I listen to that, I’ll stop…
But there is that other voice inside of my head
You can do this…
Yes it hurts but it will be ok…
Don’t stop you’re almost there…
Think of how you you feel when you cross that line…
Endurance is what we have hoped for! And like in running and in life, it is mental, knowing we are on the right path, and going where the world has not gone, but following the one that will give us new life!
So endure knowing He is what we have hoped for!
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