I am pressing on just as my husband would, and I know that he is part of the great cloud of witnesses cheering me on as I run, walk, stumble and imperfectly continue. I read this in my devotional by @meghanryanasbury and want to share it with y’all:
“Hebrews 12:1 says God has marked a race for us to run, but we get exhausted from chasing the lives of people around us. We’re running endless laps around a track trying to keep up with people who had different starting points. Not to mention, we have our own junk—that is, our sin—weighing us down and making us want to numb out.
The race of life is not actually a competition. We’re not stacked up against each other. You aren’t losing, and the person running their race near you isn’t winning. The race features runners going in different directions, at different paces, facing different hurdles along the way. But the finish line is the same: eternity with Jesus. When we take our eyes off him to focus on the racers around us, we can trip, get hurt, or throw ourselves off course.
But when we focus on what God has given us, we find a better way to live—a way to stop endlessly striving to catch up.”
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