Run Your Race

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

November 6, 2025

Run Your Race

And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.

Hebrews 12:1b 

In 2025, there were only twelve complete games pitched in Major League Baseball. Fifty years ago, there were over 1,000. Times have changed and there is no longer an emphasis on going the distance, pitching a complete game in MLB. We can see these changes in many places in our culture. Frequent changes in careers, residences, and family units are now norms in our culture. As we seek the life in Christ as our way of life, as we are seeking to stay in God’s grace for each day, we want to remember that our Lord modeled finishing the race God set before him. So also did the Apostle Paul. So also, the followers of Jesus are called to run with endurance the race God has set before us.

Let us first be sure about the race God has set before us. Our race is unique for each of us. God has given us spiritual gifts to equip us for the race He has set before us. Our race will be fine-tuned over time by God to meet our unique circumstances, but our race is the one God set before us. I know I am called by God to proclaim the Gospel. I started as a Sunday School teacher, and as an evangelist on mission trips. This part of my race prepared me for the thirty-two years I preached Jesus from a pulpit. Now my race is primarily along the route of these daily meditations, which reached more than thirty thousand readers last month.

Running our race requires endurance. We are meant to complete the race, to go the distance. There will be obstacles, hinderances, and we will get weary. Even so, we keep our eyes on Jesus and on our goal to finish our race. Along the way we will need encouragement, and one way to cultivate this encouragement is to practice being an encourager of others who also are running their race.

My Takeaway: Recently my niece completed the Marine Corps Marathon. She noted that as she approached mile seventeen, she saw, and heard, her husband who was positioned along her route shouting encouragement. She said he was at the right place at the right time to give her the boost she needed. Being an encourager is angelic work!

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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