Let us run with patience the race set before us

Bagster's Daily Light - January 30 - Morning

Let us run with patience the race set before us.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also 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. 1

And he said to all, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 2

So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. 3

The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. 4

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. 5

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 6

Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth." 7
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1 Heb 12:1,2;
2 Luke 9:23;
3 Luke 14:33;
4 Rom 13:12;
5 1 Cor 9:25-27;
6 Phil 3:13,14;
7 Hos 6:3