Max Lucado
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
“Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.” Hebrews 12:1-2
More mornings than not I drag myself out of bed and onto the street…I run because I don’t like cardiologists. Since heart disease runs in our family, I run in our neighborhood. As the sun is rising, I am running. And as I am running, my body is groaning. It doesn’t want to cooperate. My knee hurts. My hip is stiff. My ankles complain.
Things hurt. And as things hurt, I’ve learned I have three options. Go home. (Denalyn would laugh at me.) Meditate on my hurts until I start imagining I’m having chest pains. (Pleasant thought.) Or I can keep running and watch the sun come up…
If I watch God’s world go from dark to golden, guess what? The same happens to my attitude. The pain passes and the joints loosen…
Everything improves as I fix my eyes on the sun.Wasn’t that the counsel of the Hebrew epistle—“looking unto Jesus?”
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