Let Us Run

Our God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - Israel. He is the God who declared His Name on Mount Sinai. He is the same God that announced the New Covenant in the Sermon on the Mount. 

He has given us a holy charge in the Gospel of His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us run the race set before us. Let us not crawl. Let us not walk. Let us not dawdle - but let us run. Let us run with passion. Let us run with His Message. Let us run to be well-pleasing and faithful to Him. 

When it is bright and sunny let us run. When it is dark and cloudy let us run. 

When there are others with us, let us run.

When there is no one else with us, let us run.

And as we run let us carry the Torch of the Gospel, knowing that others are running with that same Torch. They have run through the centuries; through fire and flood and prison and rejection. They are running now, though we may not see them with our natural eyes, we can see them with the Eye of the Holy Spirit.

Let us run, and as we  run let us shout, let us shout the shout of the King for He is in the camp. 

Let us carry the Ark on our shoulders...let the glory of the LORD be upon His, for as our Lord said, "The glory which you have given me, I have given to them."

Let us not deny that glory in the midst of the darkness around us, but let us allow that glory, His glory, to shine upon us, and within us, and through us. For darkness shall cover the land and gross darkness the people, but our Father's promise is that His glory will arise upon us and that nations shall come to the brightness of rising.

In Jesus' Name...Amen.