Run baby, RUN!

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The only thing that I got to say, the only thing that I've kept on saying to myself today is this- Baby, RUN! (yea.. I talk to myself....)  

"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, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith." (Heb 12:1-2) 


"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. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave" (1 Corinthians 9:24-27)


Run baby, RUN! It's going to be hard. The movies were wrong, there isn't always going to be a 'high'. The race, this life, this season in your life is not going to be fun sometimes. But the very best things in life take work and perseverance, dedication, push. (I mean ask any mom you know, they pushed and got something worthwhile didn't they?.. well maybe not you. JK! You, especially, are so worthwhile! )  Push! I don't care where you are, go. Run. Push forward. Because as in the words of my pastor, if we believe the Word of God, we know the end. We know how it all ends! We WIN. We overcome. (Romans 8:37) We win over temptation and every trick that the enemy brings our way. We are victorious in the end of it all! Because He overcame! (Luke 16:33)


One of my professors sent this quote to my class from a marathon runner -- Dean Karnazes, “Run when you can, walk when you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up. 


KEEP GOING! =) 

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