Those of you who
understand anything at all about this life we live, can see that we didn’t show
up one day on earth to breeze through life.
We were created by someone greater than we and placed here for His
purpose and pleasure, of all the books that I have read all the things that I
have seen and all the studies I have made in my observation of life, nothing
makes more sense to my little finite brain than creator and the created.
The creator of all things who took a vast
emptiness of dark nothing and spoke through His all-powerful word everything
that was, is and is to come in to existence.
He was known by past generations under many different names,
http://www.pray-the-scriptures.com/prayingthenamesofgod/thenamesofgod1/page70.html He was known to Adam as The Lord God,
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God
Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself fully known to them. Exodus 6:3
To us He is known as God,Almighty God,heavenly Father,Holy
Ghost,Jesus . But the important thing
to know is that He is the divine creator and we are the lowly created. Before we were born He knew us and planned
our lives according to His will and purpose.
From that first day that God took the dirt of the earth and
formed Adam and breathed into Adams lungs His breath of life and Adam became a
living soul. Adam started on a journey
through life filled with trials and tests, choices he would have to make for
the good or bad that happened in his life.
We all know where Adams choices took him. Every living soul goes through trials and
tests at the command of God under His will and purpose to prove us, whether we
meet His high standard or fail He leaves up to us.
The apostle Paul described life as running a race with a
prize at the end. Do you not know that in a race
all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get
the prize. 1 Corinthians 9:24
We all come here in the same way first God speaks us into existence
then He breathes life into us and places us where He wants us. We all have equal footing when we start our race,
we have a body, we have a living soul and we have God’s gift of free will choice,
from that point own we have to fight through many obstacles, trials and tests
for our survival, no one is exempt from the survival course we must run. No one reaches an easy run finish line we
must all give our run everything that we have to win the prize at the end.
You know I can state it this way if you saw the game between
the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints last evening you noted that both
teams came onto the field in an equal capacity but only one left the field a
winner. Dallas Cowboys beat the New Orleans Saints 38-17 on Sunday Night
Football. You also know that the
game was not played with ease the Cowboys fought and played hard to reach the prize
of a winner.
We are all in the
race for our lives the prize at the end for winners is eternal life in the
kingdom of God, to those who surrender their lives to sin and drop by the
wayside there is death, and there is no glory in death, the glory goes to the
winners, whether we run with endurance to the finish line and complete our race
victoriously is entirely up to each of us.
Now we know that the
spirit in us is willing but our flesh is weak and if we run in our own strength
none of us could ever win we would all fail and lose the race missing out on
the rewards that God promises to those who endure. Jesus said, “ But he that
shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved”. Matthew 24:13
Jesus did not stop there because he knew
that due to the weakness of our human bodies none of us could win we all would lose
the race and be lost. And so He ran our
race for us and reached the finish line victoriously so that we could have a
chance at winning. Jesus went on to
say, these things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have
peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have
overcome the world. John 16:33 “All this I have told you so
that you will not fall away”. John
16:1
Understand this! We are all in a life or death struggle we
win we live, we lose we die and the only hope that we have of winning God has
placed in Jesus and if we run our race holding tightly to the hand of Jesus we
cannot fail, we cannot lose and we will not die. Again Jesus said, and whoever lives
by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
And I say, I can do
all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Philippians 4:13 And I will say as I cross the finish line,
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7
Jesus and me we are a winning team His strength is made
perfect in my weakness. And he said
unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in
weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the
power of Christ may rest upon me. 2
Corinthians 12:9
How about your race?
How are you running it? Are you
running alone? Where will you stand at
the finish line? Are you among the
walking sinful dead? Or are you running
with the redeemed of the Lord to win the prize of eternal life?
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of
witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily
entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, Hebrews 12:1
C.E.Lee 9292014
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