{"id":1120,"date":"2011-10-26T12:20:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T12:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/hebrews_12_-_run.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:44:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:44:37","slug":"hebrews_12_-_run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/hebrews_12_-_run.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Hebrews 12 – Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hebrews 12:1-2 -“run with endurance the race that is set before us<\/em>” I want to run my own race, not the race that God set before me. I want to follow my own desires, my own priorities, my own plans, not God’s. I rebel against His ways, telling myself I don’t have time or that I have pressing priorities. Verse 2 has the key: “looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith<\/em>“. Jesus endured for the joy set before him for our sake. If my focus is on Him, running the race should not be burdensome. It only becomes so when my focus is on me.
\nHebrews 12:11 – I long for “the peaceful fruit of righteousness<\/em>” that comes from discipline from the Lord. But, to receive it I have to allow myself to be trained by His discipline.
\nHebrews 12:18-24 – Interesting contrast here. The author contrasts the mountain of the Lord in Moses’ day where no one was allowed to approach. It was an Earthly place where God dwelt, but because of His holiness and our unholiness, no one was to come near. It’s a vision of power and fear. But, he says we have instead come to God’s actual citry, the heavenly Jerusalem. One would assume that if the Earthly copy was unapproachable, the true city in heaven would be even more so. But no, we, “the righteous made perfect”, are welcome and are<\/em> the assembly.
\nBecause of Jesus’ blood, we are welcome in God’s house where the people before weren’t even welcome in a replica of God’s house.
\nHebrews 12:25-29 – It’s tempting to view my relationship with God as buddies. It is true that through Jesus I have the kind of relationship that the Jews of old could only dream of, yet I must remember, He is still God, not simply a mentor or coach or trainer. My relationship with him, though intimate and personal, must be one first of submission, reverence and awe. God does not suffer fools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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