BESET BY WEIGHTS!

From the desk of Dr. Mary Tisdale Green

RECOVER ALL WEDNESDAY

BESET BY WEIGHTS!

BESET:  to attack on all sides; assail; harass: to be beset by enemies; beset by difficulties. to surround; hem in: a village beset on all sides by dense forest.

Hebrew12:1 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.

  We know that we are in a spiritual battle to win. We are waring against two things, weights and sin, a double whammy. The enemy is doing everything he can to make us lose this race we are in. But with God’s help, we can lay aside every weight. This race or conflict is mental, not physical; it belongs to the mind and not to the body. We enquire therefore what is to be regarded as a weight or unnecessary incumbrance in running this race;  2. Whatever draws unnecessarily upon our time is a weight that must be laid aside. All our time is God's; all to be consecrated to him. Whatever is done to occupy a day, an hour, or even a moment of our time that is not demanded by our duty to God, is a weight that just so far hinders our progress in the Christian race. Suppose a racer in the Olympian games should allow himself to be hindered by the compliments of the spectators; suppose he should stop to receive and return the salutations of his friends and acquaintance as he passed along, and thus lose time and distance instead of tasking his powers every moment--could he win the race? Now it should be forever understood that whenever a man allows his time to run to waste, or to be desecrated from the service of God--whenever he allows his time to be occupied with any other than God's business, he then takes upon himself a weight that must be laid aside, or he will never win the race.

PRAYER: Thanks for a renewed mind.