God used one of his people to speak volumes into my life, as well as others, I know. We all discussed how Trevor did such a great job and how he really has a gift of speaking, in a way that hit home with several of us. Maybe it was just the topic, but I left there just thinking and I am still thinking about what was said.
I'm tried right about now, as my everyday work is getting the best of me, but I just have to share with you what I've seen tonight, just as I go back and reread my notes and study the Scriptures a bit more on this message from Hebrews 12. You know me, I could go on and on, but just a few simple points:
I am a runner, right, so I am familiar with the idea of hitting the road and what it takes to make a good run happen. One thing that you don't want is extra stuff! Trevor is also a runner and he made this point: a runner does not, by any means, take extra stuff on the run that might slow him down.
Hebrews 12:1 says this:
" Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us... "
so my question for myself is: What is my sin that clings and slows me down? I must discover it and get rid of it!
And, before I fall asleep here at the computer, one more thought from verse 7:
"It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?"
Since I am a child of God, I am being disciplined. I must look at my strengths and my weaknesses (more so the latter) and discover how God is trying to show me and direct me in discipline.
so the question is: what is the discipline that God has be under? and am I willingly and hopefully embracing it.
These are just some, for me, very life-changing thoughts: 1. what sin is weighing me down in my run? and what type of discipline am I under right now?
