September 5, 2010
Get Rid of the Weight That's Keeping us From Getting to the Finish Line
Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
° Undisciplined
Discipline: controlled behavior. Associated with being teachable and accountable.
1 Cor 9:24: You've all been to the stadium and seen the athletes race. Everyone runs; one wins. Run to win.
° Unfocused
Keep your eyes on the prize (not circumstances, the news, other people's opinions, etc...)
Heb 12:2: Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.
Olympian who dropped the torch.
° Uncommitted
Commitment: sticktuitiveness
Proverbs 15:6 The lives of God-loyal people flourish; a misspent life is soon bankrupt.
° Sin: My personal stuff that I don't really share with anyone.
Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
-- Sent from JRochelle's Palm Pre
