I apologize for not blogging. I know it has almost been an entire month since I have blogged. The last month of school was insane and when I was not doing homework or working, I was studying and sleeping. Even though I have a valid excuse for not blogging, I can not help but feel convicted. I think everyone can relate to what I am about to write about tonight...
When I was younger I would always go to church camp and while at camp I would get so on fire for God it was ridiculous. On the way home from camp I would daydream about witnessing to all of my friends, telling them about how great Our God is and I would dream about changing the world. That attitude would last maybe a couple of weeks before the fire died. It would not die because I was less of a Christian, or because I did not have the dreams anymore, it would die because I would get occupied with other things that I thought were more important. I would always tell myself "Oh I'll spend time with God later or I'll pray for those people later", but later never happened. Can anyone relate to the church camp fire???
When God put this blog on my heart I was so pumped and on fire to start writing this. But, then life happened. I started to put it off until eventually, I never thought about it unless people asked me why I have not updated it. I feel a burning inside of me to write this blog and as I sit here right now I know that this is something that I must keep up with because it helps me grow and I pray it is helping y'all continue the race God has set out before you. I do not feel the need to go into detail about how this relates to running because I feel like it is obvious. Runners love running, but in order to get better and stronger, runners must make the time to train, and if they do not, they get weaker. This is no different than our relationship with God. We love God, but if we want to be stronger in Him and continue to grow, we MUST make time for Our God. If we do not, then we grow weaker not only spiritually, but I believe mentally, physically, and emotionally. When I am strong with the Lord I feel like I can conquer anything because I know my daddy God is fighting on my behalf, but when I am weak, I feel like everything brings me down.
The point of this blog tonight is to remind you (and myself) that we must not let life and it's distractions distract us from our purpose and what we are called to do and be. It is easy to put off the things that we love, and yes it is work to make time for God, running, and other passions that we have. I'll leave you with this, being a Christian is not hard, it is WORK... something worth having is never easy and it is not hard... it is work. We work for the things in life that mean the most to us. My beautiful Pastor's wife, Mrs. Laurie shared that with me when I was younger. She is a powerful woman of God who spoke truth into my life and who I love dearly.
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I thank God for giving me this blog and I thank God for everyone who is reading this. I pray that we can continue to grow together and run this race.
Keeping that Godly focus and fire going is work. One thing I have learned to do in my prayer life is to have my prayer list ready when I go run. Previously, I have fixed it in my mind and heart who I was going to pray for and have their faces firm in my thoughts. Then, as I run, I pray for this person from the point to that point; no one else just focus on that person, their face, lift them up to God. Then, when I reach that pre-selected point,(lightpole, stopsign, whatever)_I pray for someone else, just them, from that point to another point, and so on. When I get to the end of the prayer list, I start over, unless something else presents itself to pray for from point to point. For me it a way of marrying two great activities: running and prayer.
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