As we run this race we have to continually remind ourselves through the word of God about His promises in our lives. The reason for this is that as we run, the enemy will throw all sorts of hurdles in our way to trip us or to set us back. We have to continually keep our eyes focused on the Will of the Father in order not to be side tracked by one of these hurdles. The shield of Faith is an excellent weapon to accomplish this great task of keeping our eyes on Christ. When the busyness of work tries to take over our lives and it seems that you are always putting out the next set of fires, we must rely on the shield of Faith that God will continue to provide protection and covering in that place. This will allow us not only to accomplish the tasks we were hired to do but to also keep our eyes and hearts open for the people God wants us to sow into and to share the His Gospel with. The same goes in our family and with our friends, we may always seem to be dealing with others drama and as much as you love them and want them to experience the peace of Christ, sometimes the best thing to do is to turn them over to Christ and keep your eyes on the race that is in front of you. This is a heard thing, especially knowing that God loves people more than anything, but at the same time God nor Jesus forces anyone to follow them. Our lives must represent the same fruit, if you find people in your life who you continue to battle with as far as their drama and getting on the right page, at some point you have to go to God and ask if this is His will for you to continue going through because you wish not to be distracted from your race and earning your prize. If God gives you the sign that it is time to release, please do so, it is for your benefit and you will just have to trust that God has a plan for that person and they will have to go to Him for their own salvation. Today, as you run, Let Go of Baggage, Let God Handle That, and press towards in the race that was set specifically for you!!! Let not the hurdles of this life trip you up any longer!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of running your race on purpose!!!!!
Philippians 3
No Confidence in the Flesh
1 Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. 2 Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. 3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— 4 though I myself have reasons for such confidence.
If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.
7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in[a] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. 10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Following Paul’s Example
15 All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. 16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
17 Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. 18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
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