The race we run in pursuit of Jesus is difficult and tiring, with many traps and pitfalls scattered in our path. It is a race which requires diligence, fortitude, single-minded focus, and an enormous amount of effort. Perhaps that surprises you? Don’t worry, I’m not preaching a gospel of works!

“Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.”~ Dallas Willard

Running in pursuit of Jesus is going to require you to get up tomorrow, and give all that you have for Him. And that is the agenda for the next day, and the one that follows it, and the one after that…

But never forget, in this race you are not alone, and that Grace which saves is also the Grace which empowers.

The Apostle Paul puts it this way “For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.” Colossians 1:29