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Inspirational Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
taken from Grace for the Moment volume II©
by Max Lucado
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Unless otherwise indicated, all scripture quotations are from the New Century Version (NCV).
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January 27, 2012
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Look at the Son ©
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HEBREWS 12:1-2 NKJV
Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.
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More mornings than not I drag myself out of bed and onto the street....I run because I don't like cardiologists.
Since heart disease runs in our family, I run in our neighborhood. As the sun is rising, I am running. And as I am running, my body is groaning. It doesn't want to cooperate. My knee hurts. My hip is stiff. My ankles complain...
Things hurt. And as things hurt, I've learned that I have three options. Go home. (Denalyn would laugh at me.) Meditate on my hurts until I start imagining I'm having chest pains. (Pleasant thought.) Or I can keep running and watch the sun come up....If I watch God's world go from dark to golden, guess what? The same happens to my attitude. The pain passes and the joints loosen....Everthing improves as I fix my eyes on the sun.
Wasn't that the counsel of the Hebrew epistle--"looking unto Jesus"?
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Traveling Light
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