DEVOTION – FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
By Mel Dunn
Bridgeport and Centre Square UMCs
1Co 9:24 Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
It was our last day – after one last stop we would head to the Jordan and then would cross over on our way to our last night in Ammon and then a flight home.
We were in the ruins of a Roman city and some us were a bit tired – including our guide. But, there stood a last challenge…… a hill with, it appeared, a few hundred steps on stairs that led to the top. Our guide said that he wouldn’t be making that climb. However, if anyone wanted to go up, they had twenty minutes. Here are those who ran the race and won.
We all have our race to run and we have to run it even when we are tired and worn. As we progress through our Lenten Journey, God will help us succeed.
Our trust must be in the one who climbed the hardest hill of all and will help us climb ours.
1Co 10:12 So let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
1Co 10:13 No temptation has taken you but what is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are
able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear it.
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