Amazing Grace Race

Many of us enjoy the exhilaration of watching or competing in sport...

Whether we are athletes or not we are all part of an Amazing Grace Race!

Whether we're enjoying the great out-doors

or taking it easy indoors...

 whether working 

or playing

whether waking or sleeping,

 the race is on!

The past two morning's on-your-mark signals were saluted by sun-dogs!

This is more than just a challenge for the sheer love of the game

More than means to impress judges with amazing fetes of fame

More than ‘well, there’s always next time’ if we fail to meet the mark

For there is no consolation prize where Light divides from dark

No returning to the place where grace had granted hope’s reward

No rerunning laps to practise what the first time we ignored

This race has far more at stake than any other gain or goal

For this finish line unveils the Awesome Myst’ry of the Soul

This is more than just a ho-hum, lack-a-daisy here-and-now

More than mustering the effort to keep up the pace somehow

This fight-to-the-finish, precious, is no minor marathon

The outcome of this race, precious, all eternity hangs on

We are all in this together until that last hurdle; death

As our feet touch down we take flight on That Awesome Parting Breath

Then, what hell or what a Heaven will open before our eyes

Where damnation or salvation will unveil the final Prize

© Janet Martin

 Heb.12:1-2

 The Call to Endurance
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, 

 let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, 

 and let us run with endurance the race set out for us. 

 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, 

who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, 

and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.…

 
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God's heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.

1 Cor.9:24-25

 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? 

Run in such a way as to take the prize. 25 

Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. 

They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.…

 Romans 14:10
Why, then, do you judge your brother?
Or why do you belittle your brother?
For we will all stand before God's judgment seat.