He Told Me To Run On

Galatians 5:7 "Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth"?
Here we have Paul praising the Galatians as he said "Ye did run well". It is great pleasure to see the called of God running well. To do this they must run on the right road, run straight forward, not turning to the right or the left, at top speed, with their eye on Christ. It is a great grief when such are hindered or put off the road. The way is the truth, and the running is obedience. Men are hindered when they cease to obey the truth. It is a great thing to find out who has hindered us in our race.

It is a good thing to be walking in the ways of God, but it is better to be running, making real and visible progress. Day by day advancing in knowledge and understanding of God and His word. The Christian race is by no means easy. We are hindered in running the race set before us because our sinful nature still remains regardless of how righteous we think we are.Because of the entanglements of the world, our weakness and infirmities, we soon tire but the race is long and the road is tough. Some are too busy to run, they hurry about the worldly things to much to run. Some run to fast at the beginning that they run themselves out of breath. We are also guilty of replacing the reading of God's word, with self help books about God's word. These tend to hide the word of God from our mind  and we have no time to read the bible.

So don't let anything and anyone cause you to be disobedient, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily besets us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, and run on to see what the ends going to bring.