This evening my husband and I took a stroll at my favorite park. It
is encircled by a beautiful body of water with many types of birds. We also
saw several lovely deer. It was quite a treat with the exception of one thing.
During one point of our walk, we were surrounded by a cloud of male mosquitoes
that seemed to follow us for several minutes. There were literally hundreds of
them. They were of great hindrance and agitation to us and slowed us down to
some degree. We had to continually bat at them to keep them at bay, but we
continued to press on in our walk.
I began to ponder about these cloud of mosquitoes, which led me to start
thinking about the scripture out of Hebrews 12:1 which says "Therefore we also,
since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance
the race that is set before us."
We are surrounded daily by a cloud of Godly men and women who have gone
before us and ran the race. They are cheering us on, encouraging us to press
onward no matter what we may face in life. God's word tells us to not allow any
hindrance or sin to weigh us down. We are called to run with great endurance the
race that God has set before us to the very end.
With the cloud of mosquitoes that we faced today, we chose to carry on and
not be ensnared by them in our walk. I encourage each of you as you walk each
day and are faced with difficulties that may tend to weigh you down, remember
the great cloud of witnesses that surround you and run that race with amazing
endurance in the strength of the Lord.
In His Amazing Love,
Sandy Billingham
No comments:
Post a Comment