Running with the Christmas Spirit

I passed this scene while running this morning.  Please put Jesus at the center of your Christmas and be thankful that God gave us his son Jesus over 2000 years ago so that we may be saved.  

Run Your Race

If you follow my blog you know this is not about time, distance or personal bests.  Running with God is about a spiritual closeness with God through prayer.  For me my best prayer time comes while I am running. I do have goals though.  I have races I would like to run and times I would like to beat, but I am running the race of my life.  I want to be successful in my race.  God has set out a race before all of us.  Hebrews 12:1 ...let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us Run with patients the race that is set before us.   We each have our own race and our own path.  It is not a competition. God wants us all to be winners.  Where is the finish of this race you may ask.  Some would say that the finish is when we die and I can see that point of view, but I would like to say that the finish is at the feet of Jesus. When we run to the Lord and get to him and have given ourselves to him we have won.

It doesn't matter what path, route, race, or road you take as long as you end at the SON.

Run Your Race: Hebrews 12:1

Running in the Light

Nice and cool this morning.  Yes!  I think it was 57 degrees at the start and 64 at the finish.  Nice running weather.  Bright sunshine and blue skies.  Thanks to the sun I had a running buddy today.

Great analogy today with my shadow.  Since I was in the light my shadow followed me throughout my run.  My shadow was always there.  Sometimes it was in front of me and other times it was behind me but it never left.  If I was running in the darkness I wouldn't have had my shadow.  This is much like when we take Jesus into our lives.  When we do this we are coming out of the darkness and into the light of Jesus.  Instead of having a shadow with us we have God with us.  So I choose to run in the light.

Talk to you later and keep Running with God.