Running

I have been running with my pastor and his boys every morning for the past month or so. We had only been running 2 - 2 1/2 miles a day. This morning I meet with them and we started running. Well I was running with Isaiah and we keep running and running and running. We finally got back to their house and it had only taken us about thirty minutes which was really surprising. We figured it out and we had ran 4 miles in thirty minutes! Wow! I was not expecting that! It was good for me. I enjoy running because it helps me to realize how my christian life is not a sprint but a marathon and I need to understand how to maintain a constant pace without stopping. Today we ran down a big hill and then up it, turned around and did it again. In my life there are times where it is easy, like going down a hill. Also there are times were when it is hard, like running up hill. The key is to fix your eyes on the goal and press on! I need to not let the things around me distract me, like how sore my body is, or how nice it would be to walk, or if I give up it will be easier. I need to fix my eyes on the prize and run to that goal! "Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:12-14)

Press ON!