25/02/2023
While we know who wrote most of the books of the Bible, we don’t know who wrote the letter to the Hebrews. There has been much speculation but ultimately we know God wrote it. One thing I am certain of is that the writer was very familiar with athletics and may have been a runner himself! Several years ago, I started running. I never planned to run, didn’t like it and so no purpose in it unless something was chasing me! However, I soon found myself toeing the line to run the Country Music marathon. For those who don’t know, a marathon is 26.2 miles and the Nashville course is a fairly tough course. To make a long story short, I finished the race but I experienced what most first time marathoners experience: fatigue, exuberance, pain and joy. The “experts” will tell you when training, it’s only necessary to run distances of 20 miles or so because you can finish the last 6.2 miles on adrenaline. They are wrong! I can tell you that one has virtually no adrenaline left after running 20 miles! However, as I was finishing the race and coming down the “chute,” the words of Hebrews 12:1-2 came to mind. At the end of my race, people were at the finish line screaming and cheering! It’s like a big party! It lifts you up! That’s how our end will be as children of the living God, as we exit this life and enter into eternity, there will be a party bigger than we can even imagine! How does this happen? Because we look to Jesus for salvation. . . we follow Him. . . we learn from Him,. . . we strive to live out His calling on our life and at the end all the pain and suffering we endured during the life will be forgotten in an instant. I can’t wait for that day to come but until then, I’m keeping my eyes on Him. How about you?