I just loved this poem from my ‘Run For God Devotion’ this morning. . .
RUN
Today I chose to lace up my shoes, to meet you where You call.
To strengthen my focus, step over that line, and open my hands to it all.
I’ll bring excuses; You’ll set them free.
To be with you today is all that I need.
With each step I take my tenacity grows.
I’m running towards intention—where Your love overflows.
Counting my breaths burning like fire, muscles scream out with seizing desire,
It’s there in that moment,
You rescue my doubt, revive my objective, and force failure out.
Somehow ‘inadequate’ is no longer the truth,
My ambition’s restored and I’m running with You.
Your lungs are my lungs and Your feet are my feet,
What once bestowed strife, now appealing to me!
Oh, how I’m taken with Your boundless grace,
Such humbling affection in seeking Your face.
Now here comes the finish line miles from the start,
And each time I cross it, there’s a change in my heart.
Today I chose to lace up my shoes, to meet you where You call.
To strengthen my focus, step over that line, and open my hands to it all.
I’ll bring excuses; You’ll set them free.
To be with you today is all that I need.
With each step I take my tenacity grows.
I’m running towards intention—where Your love overflows.
Counting my breaths burning like fire, muscles scream out with seizing desire,
It’s there in that moment,
You rescue my doubt, revive my objective, and force failure out.
Somehow ‘inadequate’ is no longer the truth,
My ambition’s restored and I’m running with You.
Your lungs are my lungs and Your feet are my feet,
What once bestowed strife, now appealing to me!
Oh, how I’m taken with Your boundless grace,
Such humbling affection in seeking Your face.
Now here comes the finish line miles from the start,
And each time I cross it, there’s a change in my heart.
Even though it’s about physically running and that may not relate to you—we are all running a spiritual race. Every day God gives us, there is purpose and intention in it, and grace…thank you, Lord. I love how the Message puts Paul’s words about running our race from Philippians 3,
“I know that I am not yet what God wants me to be. I haven’t reached that goal, but I keep on moving toward it to make it mine because Christ made me and saved me for this. I know that I haven’t yet reached my goal, but there is one thing I always do. Forgetting the past and straining toward what is ahead, I keep my eyes focused on the goal. So that I may one day win the prize that God has called me to receive through Christ in the life above.”
So today, may you forget what’s behind and lace up your spiritual shoes today and keep moving toward the goal; the goal that Christ made you and saved you for…and run with intention and purpose in each step today, where His love overflows.
Only by grace,
Tara
“I know that I am not yet what God wants me to be. I haven’t reached that goal, but I keep on moving toward it to make it mine because Christ made me and saved me for this. I know that I haven’t yet reached my goal, but there is one thing I always do. Forgetting the past and straining toward what is ahead, I keep my eyes focused on the goal. So that I may one day win the prize that God has called me to receive through Christ in the life above.”
So today, may you forget what’s behind and lace up your spiritual shoes today and keep moving toward the goal; the goal that Christ made you and saved you for…and run with intention and purpose in each step today, where His love overflows.
Only by grace,
Tara