The Race Of Our Lives

It is Thursday morning, 3rd December 2020, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

If we go to the Book of Isaiah in the Old Testament, Chapter 40 and I am reading from verse 28:

“Have you not known?

Have you not heard?

The everlasting God, the Lord,

The Creator of the ends of the earth,

Neither faints nor is weary.

His understanding is unsearchable.

He gives power to the weak,

And to those who have no might He increases strength.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary,

And the young men shall utterly fall,

But those who wait on the Lord

Shall renew their strength;

They shall mount up with wings like eagles,

They shall run and not be weary,

They shall walk and not faint.”

We are in the race of our lives.

I was at a prayer meeting and a young man said to me, “I am tired.” He is a young farmer, he said, “It has been a long year.” I said, “Keep running.”

This is like an ultra-marathon race.

The Comrades Marathon is 89kms long, two standard marathons and an extra five kilometers for good measure. It’s the world’s oldest and largest ultramarathon race.

Now folks, we are in a marathon in this world.

This Covid 19, Coronavirus that we are involved in, we are running literally, the race of our lives.

You see, this race has never, ever been run before. It is the first one in the history of this world.

When someone has been there or done it before, it is very encouraging and inspiring and it even makes it easier for us.

For example, Bruce Fordyce, the multiple gold medal winner of the Comrades Marathon, shows us that it can be done.

Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing conquered the highest mountain on earth, and showed us that it can be done, but this deadly Coronavirus,

with all its deadly tentacles, those attributes like fear, hopelessness, uncertainty, has never ever happened before.

This is the time for us to seriously look to Jesus, to wait on The Lord, to renew our strength, to mount up with wings like eagles, not to be weary but to keep on walking, and Jesus Himself will bring us through.

“How?” you might very well ask.

Quite simply because He says in John Chapter 14, verse 6: “I am the way, the truth and the life.”

As you keep your eyes on The Lord, He will bring you through.