Even if we were brought up in a Christian family. As Christians we should never be sprinters, as some where along the way, or we could run our of steam. We can not run the race because we want to do it for someone else, we have to do it for our selves. When I sat down, these thoughts came to me. As I passed the finish line, I could hear on the loud speaker my name being read out, that I had finished the race, and added, well done. Some people who take the time to lift them up and help them get back into the race.Īt about 8 km I could see the finish line, I gave it everything I had, my legs were a bit like jelly. All along the way some people were cheer others on, clapping shout ” you can do it, keep going !” There were also some who had fallen, while others a had just given up. There were many who ran off like a sprinter off the blocks.Īs I went at my own pace, I passed the sprinters. There they were, bent over out of breath, some had run out of steam at about 4 km. The starter lifted the tape and there were off ! Then there was me, I was just doing it for the fun of it. Also others doing the run because of someone else. Some of those who were there were jumping up and down at the starting line, pumping them selves up, shouting ” Come on ! COME ON ! I guess they were really saying, “look at me, I am ready, I am up for this.” Then they were others who, just wanted to walk around to do the race for themselves. However when I got there I wondered if I could run it, but I never let on to anyone. To be truthful with you, its was one of these good idea at the time things. It was my first time running since high school. However I find that the Christian life is although in many ways a race, to me it is more importantly a marathon than a sprint.Ī few years ago now I ran a 10km race for a local cancer charity. It also has comparisons with running a race. When I was reading the Bible, I come cross these Scriptures in Mark 4 all about the parable of the sower. The Apostle Paul talks about running the race several times in the Bible. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous Judge, will award unto me on that day “. Jesus is showing that those who use what He gives to them to increase what is His will also be rewarded with greater opportunity and joy when He returns.2 Timothy 4:7 to 8 ( NIV) ” I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. In other words, the master welcomes the servant into closer connection to himself, managing more of his own estate and walking in joyful relationship with him. Second, he welcomes the servant to share in his own personal joy. First, he tells the servant that because he has been faithful over little, he will make the servant responsible for a great deal more. He calls the man a good and faithful servant and tells him "well done." He rewards him in two ways. The master trusted the servant with great wealth, and the servant earned the equivalent wealth for his master. He used his master's five talents to earn another five talents. He wants to see what they have done with the money he has left them. Now the master has returned after a long time away and has come to these servants to settle accounts with them. A single talent might have been as much as a common laborer could earn in twenty years. These are counted using the measure of "talents," which in the ancient world was an enormous weight of precious metals. The master in the story left town after giving these three servants large sums of tradable cash. A parable about a master and three trusted servants communicates to Jesus' servants how they should live while waiting for His return (Matthew 25:14–20).
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