Do you ever feel like you are running really fast but going nowhere. I sure do. I will spend a day or a week hustling all over the place, but then I look back and wonder what I really accomplished.
Two things most often hinder my progress. First, I have lost focus on my goal. So instead of going straight toward the target, I have wandered right and left. This causes me to expend more energy to get to the goal. Secondly, I have carried extra weight while running. I have let worries, anxieties, and frustration bog me down.
Hebrews 12:1-2 tells me how to avoid these pitfalls in my life. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.” So to run life’s race victoriously, I must discard sin and run to Jesus, keeping my eyes focused on him.
Reluctant Retiree 