Run with patience

"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" (‭Hebrews‬ ‭12‬:‭1‬ KJV). Lay aside all problems and sin that so easily catches and tempts us. Sin can only be avoided by us, you and I. It is up to us individually to lay aside whatever it may be that weights us down on this journey with Jesus Christ. Sin can be heavy, and it affects the whole body, giving it dead weight upon the soul. Sin has pulled many men and women down that once were ascending upwards and forwards in the name of Jesus Christ. Sin only makes this walk with Jesus harder and more difficult than it needs to be. Unbelief is a great hindrance that will keep us from finishing the race that God has called us to run. Loving others greater than loving Christ can keep us from our eternal blessings with the Lord. Pleasures, riches, and the cares of this world can easily choke out our faithfulness to the King of Glory. It is high time that we awaken from our sleep and get desperate in this race that is set before us and run, looking to Jesus Christ who is the author and finisher of our faith. "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier" (‭2 Timothy‬ ‭2‬:‭3-4‬ KJV). Let us push past all that so easily besets us. There is a great cloud of witnesses that are looking upon us from Heaven above. God bless you. Amen