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Daily Devotion — Hebrews 12:1 — The Christian Walk and Race
“Too fast!” My coach warned me at one mile into the three-mile race. Most of my high school years were spent on a cross-country course or a track. I wasn’t an amazing athlete, but I was decent enough to be an average high school runner. So when my coach read the current race time to me while I was running early in the race, I thought pridefully, “Wow! I am an awesome runner!” It would have been a decent mile time on its own. But the pace I was running at that point in the race was unsustainable for the whole three-mile event, especially for one with punishing and seemingly endless hills. I crashed about halfway into running the race, and ran one of my slowest matches that season. My eagerness had been shortsighted, and although I had completed what was set before me, I could have done better. Hebrews 12:1 ESV talks about the endurance we need for living our life here on earth. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.” Our life is a race and we want to be victorious in it. What can we learn from the runner that would help us in our walk?
