Our walking and running must bring us closer to a dynamic devotion to our Lord. Our devotion will cause us to focus on the prize. We have this awesome privilege of an intimate eternity with our Lord. As we yield to the life and person of the Holy Spirit, we will have the strength and patience to press toward the goal.
What is your focus? Is it to know Christ? Do you want to become deeply acquainted with Him, and know the power that flows out from His life!
1. Are you still in the race that God has put before you?
2. Are you thinking of quitting and letting someone else wear your shoes?
3. Have you really finished the course and done all that the Lord has spoken?
Someone has said, that at times we need to quit thinking about heaven, and start thinking about pushing and pressing harder than ever before. Our focus must be on the prize - our Lord Jesus Christ.
ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, READY, GO!
Are you living out the plans and thoughts that God has ordained for you? He has recorded all the days of your life in His holy register. His good thoughts about you outnumber the grains of sand on the beach.
Psalm 139:5,6 "You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!"
Psalm 139:13-18 "You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous - how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can't even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!
Have you found your purpose for living? Do your goals and vision line up with the principals in the Bible? I really like what God thinks about purposes. He shared His eternal plan with the world in Ephesians 3:11, "...according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord..."
Also in 2 Timothy 1:9 we have the heart of the gospel message given. "...who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,..."
I believe that God gave guidelines for determining our purpose for living. He gave His only son for the good of mankind. He had a goal, purpose, and vision to bring light and peace to the world. Jesus Christ, the Son, showed us the way in - 1 John 3:8B and Acts 10:30,"For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil and He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil." In all of our goals, we can all be like our Lord who went about doing good.