I woke up thinking on something this morning…running. Going back to the Bible the first “runners” were Adam & Eve, they sinned and felt bad so they hid from God, but they were found by God, and unfortunately they had to pay a very steep price for their sin! I couldn’t mention runners without mentioning Jonah. God called him to go to Nineveh to preach, but instead he ran and ended up in the belly of a great fish! What consequences…we do have total forgiveness in God, but every sin comes with a price tag attached to it. Sometimes when God calls us to do something, or He calls us to change who we are we put on our “running shoes” and off we go! I think we oftentimes get spiritual amnesia when it comes to sin, we forget that the great men & women of the Bible had to pay for our sins, so do we! Yes, Jesus went to Calvary for our sins, but we still reap what we sow, if we sow sin then sin will be all we have in our lives. Sometimes we use Calvary as an excuse to do whatever we want, but God’s law doesn’t work that way! The thought that has followed me for days is, we are one generation away from extinction, now I’m not trying to be a downer, but look at it like this, when you are in the middle of your “sin” look at those beautiful blessings God gave you and realize they are learning to live for God from you…will they live in victory or sin? I know some of you have already come to the conclusion that this is “not for you” but this is for every one of us…oh no we aren’t out smoking, drinking, or committing adultery, but what about gossiping, backbiting, and unkindness? Sin is sin in God’s eyes. When faced with the sin in us it really is easiest to just run, but if we would just surrender the blessings would be beyond belief! Look what happened with Jonah…a whole city came to repentance because he finally obeyed! Think for a moment, how many “cities” are we preventing from being saved because we are choosing to run and live in sin? At times of heartache it is very easy to turn to sin too, but you know those trials are put there to help you as well as others, I have come to a very strong conclusion and that is this, sin really can be your legacy….you know why? It truly shows God’s great delivering power, and no one can deny it happened! The problem is we want to sit around in our sins and don’t even seek that deliverance! So in turn the people of this world don’t see what they are supposed to! When a person runs their muscles get stronger and stronger as they build up the distance they run, and normally I am one who encourages fitness and staying in shape, but when it comes to spiritual running being out of shape is best unless you are running to God! Look at your life, erase the sin and those habits that aren’t helping you and turn your running shoes into God, so together we can raise a “non running” generation behind us! I love y’all…