Homestretch

Well it's been about a year since I wrote in here last...okay maybe not that long but it feels like forever. haha.

I was just thinking tonight as my brother and I rode the homestretch. We had gone for an hr long bike ride. Which is fine, but apparently my leg muscles and body muscles aren't so excited about this bike ride...especially with my spry 13 year old brother who has been biking a lot lately. Sooooo we're getting towards the end of our bike ride and I'm all excited...and it reminded me of this race I was in. It was a 5 km run and my friend and I were running it together...yes we ended up walking a lot of it, but at the end we were gonna lose together, but just as I saw the finish line I got this kick within me and suddenly I was gone, I couldn't help it. I knew the end was near and I had no choice but to obey my body and go into full speed.

It made me think of how we live our lives. Do we live with the homestretch in mind? knowing the finish line is somewhere out there, close, or far away? Or do we live with the mindset that the finish line isn't going to come so we don't need to be giving it our all?? I personally want to live my life as if the finish line was right in front of me, giving God my all, putting everything I am into life, rather than moping around in a pity party. I want to be going full strong, knowing I'm on the homestretch. Yep I might be on the homestretch for 50 years but I don't want to miss a minute of it with my stopping to gaze at the sin that looks so good and enticing, I don't want to wander off the trail and find some poison ivy and rub it all over me. I want to run that homestretch with endurance.

Now this is all not to say to ENJOY LIFE. Sure take a minute and smell the roses, look and see the grace painted across the sky, enjoy every second of life. What I'm getting at is, I don't want to live my life running off the path and playing in poison ivy, or playing with the bears cub or something. I want to stay on that path, running for my prized possession, Jesus, and I know I can do that and still enjoy the beautifulness of life. =)