"You’ve worked harder for this than I have." Broadhurst had also been a winner. "Here," says Rodgers, putting his newly won medal around Bill’s neck. He’s Bill Rodgers, the famous marathon runner. Bill recognizes him from pictures in the newspaper. A man approaches from a small group of bystanders. And that's the purpose of our message today to look at that race. Six miles and two hours and twenty-nine minutes later, Bill reaches the finish line. But putting it all together, between the time that Jesus initially calls you in the embrace of faith to the time when you see him face to face, you must run a race with endurance, and it's going to be hard. Sweat rolls down his face, pain pierces his ankle, but he keeps going. His slow plop-plop-plop rhythm seems to mock him as the pack fades into the distance. Reflective thoughts and study of Philippians 4:6-7 on how God is in control in the midst of anxiety.
On Relinquishing Control, A Prayer for Anxiety. Words: Daniel Fong Photography: Nicolas Hoizey, Andrew McElroy, Chau Cedric. Bill throws his stiff left leg forward, pivots on it as his right foot hits the ground. May we run the race with endurance and put our faith in the Lord. Run the race to win, to get the prize that is waiting for you. To run we have to discipline our bodies and minds to prepare. The gun cracks! The crowd surges forward. Life is not a casual stroll through a beautiful park but a race that is to be run. The man who loves Jesus Christ deeply praises God when he’s being devoured by lions and when he’s being overrun by foreign armies, saying, If this is my role in the furtherance of your kingdom, praise your name. But on a misty July morning in 1981, he stood with 1,200 lithe- looking men and women at the starting line. Run with endurance the race that is set before us. Lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:1-2). Ten years earlier, surgery for an aneurysm is the brain had left him paralyzed on his left side. Every believer runs his own race (1 Corinthians 9:24).
By the sin that does so easily beset us, understand that sin to. 12:1-11 The persevering obedience of faith in Christ, was the race set before the Hebrews, wherein they must either win the crown of glory, or have everlasting misery for their portion and it is set before us. It’s like the experience of Bill Broadhurst, who entered the Pepsi Challenge 10,000-meter road race in Omaha, Nebraska. Run the Race With Endurance: Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary. Unlike most competitions however, running the race in spiritual terms is not to try to be first, but to be faithful and finish! The Christian race is not a competitive event to see who comes in first, but an endurance run to see who finishes faithfully.