Run your own race

Athletes cannot compete very well if they are constantly looking behind or around themselves to compare their race to the other athletes. They also won’t run very focused if they look to the spectators to see if they are enjoying themselves! Athletes need to clear their minds of all distractions in order to achieve the best possible result.

In the same way, as a Christian, you need to clear your mind of any comparison to other Christians around you. God has planned a unique ‘race’ or journey for you to enjoy, which is unlike any other person’s. Don’t waste your time fretting about how insignificant your are in comparison to others, or think you have accomplished more than they have.

If you are a preacher, don’t worry about the congregation and if they are enjoying themselves. The best you can offer the world around you is to look to Jesus, and make Him the sole focus of your Christian journey. He will finish the work that He started in you, and naturally touch everyone you come into contact with.

“Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us, looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection].” Heb 12:1-2

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