18/03/2024
Run your race.
March 18, 2024
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Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
When we were in our mother’s womb, before we did anything right or wrong, God had a plan for us. Right after we are born again, we should begin the journey of discovering who God made us to be. Many times, only people in the Body of Christ who have a five-fold call are encouraged to discover who they are. What are the other 90 to 95% of the Body of Christ supposed to do? Do they have nothing to answer for at the Judgement Seat of Christ?
Everyone has a divine destiny, and we must all discover what it is, and the race God has set before us to run. Psalm 37:23 says, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delights in his way.” Since the scripture says our steps are ordered, it doesn’t seem we are supposed to be doing whatever we want and then ask God to bless our steps. The Word is very clear that God has preordained our steps (Ephesians 2:10), and that He has directed our steps, although we always try and want to make our own way (Proverbs 16:9).
I think we must understand that if we really want to please God, we don’t get to do what we want with our lives. We cannot just decide for ourselves that this is who I am. You must find your course so you can run your race and hear, “Well done,” from the Lord. How do you find your course? Psalm 119:105, “Your Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” As we get full of the Word of God, it becomes a huge lamp, like the lights you see when you drive at night, and construction is being done on the road. Those lamps put out so much light so the workers can see what they are doing, and you, the driver, can see them.
The written Word of God has, within it, your path; your spiritual eyes just need to be flooded with light, so you can see who Jesus is and what He has called you to be and to do. In both Galatians 2:2 and Philippians 2:16, Paul is telling us, by the Holy Ghost, that he had to check the course he was running so he would not run his race in vain. We have a course to run. We must find our place in the Body of Christ. We must run our race. We must constantly check in with the Holy Spirit to make sure we are still on the right course and are not running our race in vain. Run your race!