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Running the Race is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

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lostANDfound:
loving this thread, thanks marques.
this was timely for me also.  i ran a race last weekend that made me think of our spiritual marathon.  it was all up & down hills, with obstacles every so often.  i got to the point where i looked forward to the obstacles for a break from the tediousness of just plain running.  i wonder if anyone else sometimes feels like this in their spiritual journey?  for me, sometimes just slogging through another day of being patient and gracious and loving with the people i see every day, no matter how my blood sugars are telling me to act, feels harder than dealing with major financial issues, family crisis, etc.  it's natural to fall to your knees in the midst of a real "obstacle" and say "here Lord, I can't do this, please help", but those day-to-day ups and downs are to be handled the same way.  part of what i'm learning lately. 
thanks again marques and everyone for your responses.

Rene:
Marques,

I have read this thread a couple of times, and it is a beautiful reminder of our journey! 

When I think of a "marathon," I think how important it is to have patience.  I'm also reminded of the story of the Tortoise and the Hare.  The hare started out fast and ran circles around the tortoise, but it was the slow, steady pace of the tortoise, that enabled him to have endurance and make it to the end.  I hope and pray we all our tortoises. ;)

René

crazy4bam:
The hare started out fast and ran circles around the tortoise, but it was the slow, steady pace of the tortoise, that enabled him to have endurance and make it to the end.  I hope and pray we all our tortoises.Quoted from Renee!


In recent months I have felt like I was running uphill backwards carrying a ton of rocks in a backpack. Just like the hare I kept felling like everyone was running in circles around me and I just couldn't see past it. I recently came back to the form and feel like I just won that race. Marques, thank you this really helped me understand that no matter what he will always be right there holding my hand.

                                                         Pam

tau:
The marathon, the race that needs to be run, with patience and enduarance is my personal favorite, as Paul said in my all time favorite scripture;

For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Php 3:4  Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
Php 3:5  Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
Php 3:6  Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Php 3:7  But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Php 3:8  Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
Php 3:9  And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Php 3:10  That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Php 3:11  If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Php 3:12  Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Php 3:13  Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Php 3:14  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Php 3:15  Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
 ;D

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