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by Sandy Shaw
Questions arise at times which spark off profitable searches, producing satisfying answers.
How can we survive life’s troubles? By looking to Jesus Christ, and fixing our eyes on Jesus Christ.
What motivates God’s discipline? It is His love for us.
As a father disciplines his children, so God applies a discipline which is always just.
Godly discipline is for our good, enabling us to share in His holiness.
Seldom do we hear someone being described as godly or holy. Why?
When the writer to the Hebrew Christians is seeking to encourage these believers to remain faithful and loyal, he speaks specifically about whatever may hinder or impede our growth, progress and development.
Like the athlete before a race, we are told to discard and get rid of what is unnecessary, and the sin that could easily entangle, entrap, and trip us up.
“Get rid of it, man. It will just get in the way.”
All this is being written to people who were experiencing increasing pressure, so that they would not give up, grow weary, or lose heart.
Much of the Olympics made good viewing, but these men and women did not reach their physical peak by sitting watching television.
Their longing was to win a medal, and even gold medals do not have much gold in them.
Consider the sacrifices individuals are willing to make to run a few seconds faster, jump a fraction higher, or dive with greater accuracy.
Everything is aimed towards that goal – where they go, the advice they take, the food they eat.
What a spiritual challenge when we remember our high and holy calling in Christ. That must never be treated as insignificant, nor underestimated.
Nothing daunted these early disciples.
They ran the race and did not dawdle!
Sandy Shaw
Nairn Christian Fellowship
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Sandy has a weekly radio talk which can be heard via the Internet on Saturday at 11:40am, New Orleans time, at wsho.com.
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