Saturday, September 1, 2012

Race For The Prize IN JESUS, not the world

When you look at all the races that the world runs, from sports to athletics, from success to entertainment, there is the MOST important seed of Truth that Jesus shines His Light through as He teaches us all to live in the Unity of the Love of God, AT PEACE, IN FAITH, WITH LOVE, Grace and TOGETHER Overcoming all the obstacles and pitfalls of worldliness.

JESUS RUNS IN US
Corinthians 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

Obtain (Recieve) That Gift which Jesus Christ Has earned for us to freely

VANITY OF WORLDLY RACING
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Shortlived are the fruits of unrighteousness, the fading vanity of a world that looks to death and not life. Seek rather the Everlasting Kingdom of God and the True Everlasting Riches of Heaven, The Freely Recieved Gift of Everlasting Life in Jesus Christ.

LAY ASIDE UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT
Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

COMPASSION
Hebrews 13:3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. 

Heb 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

We can take a look at a "100 meter sprint" race and we get a clear picture of what the spectating, and lot casting of the world does that impares our vision of the True Love God Brings into our Lives. But Clearer is the Revelation Of Gods Love for ALL.

1 - God does not make anyone compete for His Love.

2 - as He is molding us into who He had destined for us to be we also know that He is ALSO molding others and that it is ALL done by HIS Grace, not by our own efforts nor any of the comparative obligation of worldly ruling.

3 - The Free Gift Jesus gave us is Redemption and Revelation of His Salvation for ALL without a false sense of deserving for in fact, as all have sinned and fall short of the Grace of God, none were deserving but ALL Have been freely Given the Free Gift which is in Christ Jesus ALONE, In HIS one and perfect sacrifice that all may confess and give thanks to Our God and Saviour who is Truly Worthy and FULL of Love, bringing us not condemnation but REDEMPTION in Eternal Salvation.

With these 3 points & more, The picture of a "race" quickly changes when you can now see brothers carrying each other to the finish line, overcoming the battle of "self" and the TRUE picture of He who Has won ALL battles for us, who overcame the world for us so that IN HIM we Have been freely given the Gift of Eternal Redemption.

Beyond these material things, privledges, possitions, and in spite of compromising or comparing proportion, we Have Been Given Gods Disroportionate Grace in Jesus Christ in whom is The Supernatral Sufficiency of His Supernatural Grace in His Overflowing Supernatral Love for Us all, to us all and Through Us All.

It is written and God Speaks "I shall pour my spirit out upon all flesh" and "I will lay a stumbling block, a rock of foundation in Zion, that those who believe on Him will not be put to shame". "The stone that the builder rejected has become the chief cornerstone" and througy Him we have remission of Sins and clear conscience.

In Jesus Christ we are DELIVERED from the perversities of the world and brought into The Abounding Grace of God and His Unmerited Favor toward us who believe. He Works through us His Light and Manifest Glory, His Love, compassion and the Fruits of The Spirit, all things being possible through Christ in whom and which are ONLY Good and LIGHT.