Run with Perseverance

I’ve never been much of a runner.  I admire people whose bodies cooperate with that activity, and yes, I guess I envy them a bit too.  I envy them especially when see a resolution for the New Year from the Book of Hebrews: Run with Perseverance.

Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.

Does it say walk with perseverance?  Nope. 

While walking speaks of a contemplative faithfulness step by step and a long-term steadiness of endeavor, running is different.  It bursts with an eagerness, a passion, a rhythm, a pacing, and a physical abandon.  Wild.  Free.  

Thoughts for today:

What hinders you?  Anything in your past or present?  Anything in your heart or your memory?  Do you have any sin binding you and keeping you from running the race of faith?  What does this passage say about how to deal with it?