MY FRIENDS, WE ARE IN THE LAST STRETCH OF A MARATHON CAN WE FINISH?

April 9, 2016

MY FRIENDS, WE ARE IN THE LAST STRETCH OF A MARATHON CAN WE FINISH?

And [God] said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and [the children of Israel] shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; Gen. 15:13 (KJV) At the end of four hundred years God tells Moses, go get his Children. Then after years in bondage Moses and the children of Israel were able to sang, “The Lord is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.

He is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will exalt Him. Ex 15:1-2 (KJV) “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! Isaiah 49:15 (KJV) God’s children in the 21st century are in a full marathon. But remember, Christ knows how grueling the course, for He himself has run it.

So we cannot retreat because of the many years of affliction by the god of this world. Today God calls all of his Children to pursue righteousness and to sustain a drive toward excellence far beyond what we think ourselves are capable of achieving Because God will sustain and provide us with the adequate amount of endurance to fulfill His will in our life to finish.  But to finish, it must become all about our faith and our wiliness to serve Christ as we allow self to die daily.

In addition, as a child of God, mentally we must equip our minds through the study of His word for what lies ahead. In Jeremiah 12:1-5 (AMP) Jeremiah is ready to give up, so He tells God How long must the land mourn and the grass of the countryside wither Because of the wickedness and hypocrisy of those who live in it?” The Lord’s response to Jeremiah, also becomes a personal challenge to you and I.

“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan”? In other words, my friends, if you’re worn out in A 5k footrace with the forces of evil, as you go through the trials of this life each day, what makes you think you can handle a full marathon as we begin to enter into the last days of this life’s history?

My friends, It’s time we begin to move at rapid speed as we prepare ourselves and take the good news of the gospel to others. Like Jeremiah, God’s chosen generation “for such a time as this,” has allowed life to wear us down as we become absorbed in self-pity, and doubt in trying to endure to the end. Jeremiah was ready to abandon it all, and then a word from the Lord tells him, are you going to quit at the first wave of trials and opposition?

Christ on the Mount of Olives as He was praying, understood the challenges ahead and it was His humanity that recognized the difficulty of His journey. This is His humanity that dreads the suffering that He will in-counter, His humanity knew the path would seem impossible, and it is the humanity of Christ that must be our example, and who we must become as we allow His Spirit to transformed each of us into his image as we prepare to finish this marathon and cross over into the promise land.

Every excuse we may give as the reason we cannot serve Christ, was challenged and answered at Calvary.