July 20, 2023 LAY ASIDE
Hebrews 12:1-2 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth do easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
We are blessed to have the power to ‘lay aside;’ we do not have to live with unnecessary weights that would rob us of the life God has for us. Whether it be attitudes, thought processes, or habits, that are hindering us in life, we can lay aside those things that so easily beset us by the power of the Holy Spirit. Some would say “You just don’t know the struggle I am dealing with”; I understand that it may seem difficult to simply lay things aside, but yet, God word remains true-we do not have to live weighted down. It sounds so simple, but it is amazing what power there is in our spoken words and the commitments of our hearts. Throughout the scriptures we find that God gives us the power to be over-comers. There is a race set before each one of us and it is our unique race and we must run our race with patience, and we must lay aside any unnecessary weights if we are to win our race. God has not left us powerless. There are ‘clouds of witnesses’ who have gone before us, and there are witnesses around us today who are rooting us on in the race we are running; let us run to win. So if there is anything that hinders us or causes us not to run the race set before us-the life God calls us to live-let us lay it aside; it is not as difficult as it may appear.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. And everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I buffet my body and make it my slave, less possibly, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.”
Blessings, Buddy
Hebrews 12:1-2 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth do easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
We are blessed to have the power to ‘lay aside;’ we do not have to live with unnecessary weights that would rob us of the life God has for us. Whether it be attitudes, thought processes, or habits, that are hindering us in life, we can lay aside those things that so easily beset us by the power of the Holy Spirit. Some would say “You just don’t know the struggle I am dealing with”; I understand that it may seem difficult to simply lay things aside, but yet, God word remains true-we do not have to live weighted down. It sounds so simple, but it is amazing what power there is in our spoken words and the commitments of our hearts. Throughout the scriptures we find that God gives us the power to be over-comers. There is a race set before each one of us and it is our unique race and we must run our race with patience, and we must lay aside any unnecessary weights if we are to win our race. God has not left us powerless. There are ‘clouds of witnesses’ who have gone before us, and there are witnesses around us today who are rooting us on in the race we are running; let us run to win. So if there is anything that hinders us or causes us not to run the race set before us-the life God calls us to live-let us lay it aside; it is not as difficult as it may appear.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. And everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I buffet my body and make it my slave, less possibly, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.”
Blessings, Buddy
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