It’s another Sunday and tonight is one of my favorite shows called ‘The Amazing Race’. The thing I like about it most is that the participants travel the world seeing all kinds of interesting places, people and cultures. For someone who has never been outside of North America it is an opportunity to see the places I’d like to visit while I watch competitors racing against time in challenges that are fun, crazy and sometimes scary, but almost always stretching their boundaries.
Yet, as interesting as the show is, it doesn’t hold a candle to the real life journey made by billions of people worldwide, and specifically those of my fellow brothers and sisters. To think that a sister may be experiencing tremendous victory while another is leaning on a solitary friend just to get through another struggle filled day, still another stands by a dying friend, and a brother is walking out in faith to start ministering for Christ. What incredible journeys are being made.
Many people are walking in different and remarkable places on their journeys right now at this very moment, and we can share in their journeys by encouragement, walking with them- sometimes even holding their hands or allowing them to lean on us, or lifting them up to the Father’s throne with prayer. This life is not often easy, and it helps to have someone at our side cheering us on and reminding us that we are loved. Even God knew Adam needed another human to as a companion, hence the reason He made Eve.
So let us all make an effort to join into the most amazing race of all- The Amazing Grace Race- and instead of being competitors with the others around us, let us see how many people we can encourage to win the race with us.
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, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; Heb. 12:1,2a
have ye not known that those running in a race--all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain; 1Cor. YLT