Lay It Aside

Before I get to what I wanted to write down this morning, I have to say thank you to the Young's for letting me stop over and visit them this weekend on my way to Dallas.  I very much appreciate your support, encouragement, and good food!  Thank you so very much!

On my way to school this morning, I heard a verse on the radio that really hit home to me.  It is one of those things that you have felt for a while and then the verse speaks to that very issue.  The past two weeks have been somewhat difficult, I must admit.  Deep inside me I sense an unrest and uneasiness.  I have realizing more that this is the battle that is literally inside all of us.  It is a battle between God and the world.  It is the battle between following God or following the pleasures of the world.  

The verse on the radio this morning that hit me is Hebrews 12:1-2, "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God" (ESV).  

We know the things that weigh us down.  We know the sins that we keep running back to, simply because they are familiar to us.  I urge you to cast off the sins that weigh you down, so that you may run the race that is set before you.

My prayer request today is that we would pray for one another, asking God for the strength, the will, and the desire to cast aside every weight.  Please pray for each other and for myself.