Tuesday Morning Devo

Each morning our students will spend some one on one time with God. I've written a devotional for them that follows along with our Amazing Race theme. I'll post each day's devos so you can follow along.



Tuesday Morning Devo

“Hurdles”

Last night we compared life to a race. God calls us to run hard away from ourselves, our sins that try to tangle us up, and our natural selfishness. He is calling us toward Him, and we know that we can trust Him. But sometimes things get in our way.

The Bible tells us to “take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.” (Ephesians 6:16). This means that as we run our race we are going to run into obstacles, but that God has given us a shield for those things.

What are the obstacles that get in the way of your race? For some people it is their history. They’ve messed up along the way, they’ve hurt people, or maybe they have been hurt by people, and they are angry or bitter. They think that they are disqualified from the race because of their past. For other people their hurdle is temptation. They want the things of this world, so they get tripped up in their sin and they don’t live for God.
There are all kinds of hurdles in life, but God promises us that we can jump over every one if we will only trust Him. The Bible says, “I can do everything through him who gives me strength.” (Philippians 4:13).

Take a few minutes and think about the hurdles that are getting in the way of your race.

Ask God to give you strength to live your purpose today. Don’t worry about tomorrow, or the rest of the week, just ask God to help you make it through the day as best as you can. Ask Him to help you run fast and hard for this stretch of the race. You will never get today back, you can only live it once, there will never again be an August 4th, 2009; ask God to give you the courage to live today completely for His will!