An acquaintance of mine recently said that the Christian journey is like racing across a bed of hot coals and the more weight we have on us the slower we are and the more we get burned. This is so true...the weight of hatred, fear, pain and sin, keep us back and when we hold on to these things, when we allow them to weigh us down, we will always be burned. Sin is by far the heaviest weight to carry and I'm talking from experience...the consequences of sin are never easy to bear. We spend a lot longer on each hot coal than we really should and we end up with charred feet, definitely looking worse for the wear. When I first gave my life to Christ, I made the mistake of thinking that I was going to heaven and nothing else mattered. How wrong I was!!! If sin remains in our lives we will never move forward in Christ. So, we should not remain on one coal for the rest of our lives, being burned because of some sin that we refuse to let go of.
As Hebrews 12:1 says "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside very weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us"
So guys, let's start shedding those pounds. Let us lay aside every weight and start to run, keeping our eyes fixed on Christ, "knowing that our present sufferings are not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed in us" (Romans 8:18)
As Hebrews 12:1 says "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside very weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us"
So guys, let's start shedding those pounds. Let us lay aside every weight and start to run, keeping our eyes fixed on Christ, "knowing that our present sufferings are not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed in us" (Romans 8:18)
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