"Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi."
2 Samuel 18:23
Running is not everything, there is much in the way which we select:
a swift foot over hill and down dale will not keep pace with a slower traveller upon level ground.
How is it with my spiritual journey,
am I labouring up the hill of my own works and down into the ravines of my own humiliations and resolutions,
or do I run by the plain way of "Believe and live"?
How blessed is it to wait upon the Lord by faith!
The soul runs without weariness, and walks without fainting,
in the way of believing.
Christ Jesus is the way of life, and he is a plain way, a pleasant way, a way suitable for the tottering feet and feeble knees of trembling sinners:
am I found in this way, or am I hunting after another track such as priestcraft or metaphysics may promise me?
I read of the way of holiness, that the wayfaring man,
though a fool, shall not err therein:
have I been delivered from proud reason and been brought as a little child to rest in Jesus' love and blood?
If so, by God's grace I shall outrun the strongest runner who chooses any other path.
This truth I may remember to my profit in my daily cares and needs.
It will be my wisest course to go at once to my God,
and not to wander in a roundabout manner to this friend and that.
He knows my wants and can relieve them,
to whom should I repair but to himself by the direct appeal of prayer, and the plain argument of the promise.
"Straightforward makes the best runner."
I will not parlay with the servants, but hasten to their master.
In reading this passage, it strikes me that if men vie with each other in common matters,
and one outruns the other,
I ought to be in solemn earnestness so to run that I may obtain.
Lord, help me to gird up the loins of my mind,
and may I press forward towards the mark for the prize of my high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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If you are not a believer in Jesus Christ,
you can be accepted in to his kingdom.
I invite you to let him to make of you what
He always wanted.
"PRAYER"
Marvelous God Almighty,
I come to you in the precious name of Jesus,
who died for me to make me free of sin,
I come to you in the precious name of Jesus,
who died for me to make me free of sin,
I want Jesus to enter in to my heart and make me free.
I confess that He is the son of God.
I ask to change my heart and to give me wisdom to understand your Holy Word full of promises of eternal value, not only to live on this earth, but to be expectant of my life in heaven.
In the precious name of Jesus I ask.
Amen..
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“The true minister of Christ knows that the true value of a sermon must lie,
not in its fashion and manner,
but in the truth which it contains.”
.... Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers,"
Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
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