Then
Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain,
And
overran Cushi.(2SM 18:23)
Running is not everything,
Running is not everything,
There
is much in the way which we select:
A
swift foot over hill and down dale
Will
not keep pace with a slower traveller upon level ground.
How
is it with my spiritual journey,
Am
I labouring up the hill of my own works
And
down into the ravines of my own humiliations and resolutions,
Or
do I run by the plain way of “Believe and live”?
How
blessed is it to wait upon the Lord by faith!
The
soul runs without weariness, and walks without fainting,
in
the way of believing.
Christ
Jesus is the way of life, and he is a plain way, a pleasant way,
A
way suitable for the tottering feet and feeble knees of trembling
sinners:
Am
I found in this way,
Or
am I hunting after another track
Such
as priestcraft or metaphysics may promise me?
I
read of the way of holiness,
That
the wayfaring man, though a fool, shall not err therein:
Have
I been delivered from proud reason
And
been brought as a little child to rest in Jesus’ love and blood?
If
so, by God’s grace I shall outrun the strongest runner
Who
chooses any other path.
This
TRUTH I may remember to my profit in my daily cares and needs.
It
will be my wisest course to go at once to my God,
And
not to wander in a roundabout manner to this friend and that.
He
knows my wants and can relieve them,
To
whom should I repair but to himself by the direct appeal of prayer,
And
the plain argument of the promise.
“Straightforward
makes the best runner.”
I
will not parlay with the servants, but hasten to their master.
In
reading this passage, it strikes me
That
if men vie with each other in common matters,
And
one outruns the other,
I
ought to be in solemn earnestness so to run
That
I may obtain.
Lord,
help me to gird up the loins of my mind,
And
may I press forward towards the MARK
For
the prize of my high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Fay
Chiwesha
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