Run Your Race

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 2nd of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of John 19:30:

“So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.” 

It is finished!  We have to finish our race, my dearest friends. I was on a radio programme and when I said, “We have to finish our race just like Jesus finished His race on the Cross of Calvary, she said, “But Uncle Angus, we are so tired. There are many of us that are so weary and tired.” I said, “My dear lady, I couldn’t agree with you more. I too am tired but we have to finish.” I said, “The road that leads to hell and damnation is wide, it is smooth, it is easy to walk on, and there are many who are walking on that road, but the road that leads to eternal life, to Heaven, is very narrow, very steep and rocky and there are very few on that road. That is the road that you and I are on at the moment and we need to finish strong. So to be tired is quite understandable. 

I looked up an Olympic marathon runner from the 1984 Olympic Games, Gabriella Anderson-Schiess. She was running the marathon, she got dehydrated and she finished that race. She was wondering all over the track but she would not sit down because she said she knew if she sat down she would never get up again, and by law, none of the assistants could touch her. She had to finish herself, but the crowd went wild. It is not whether you finish first or second, it’s whether you finish your race, and even as Gabriella finished her race, you and I need to do exactly the same. But the good news is, the Lord has not asked us to finish our race on our own.

If we look at Philippians 1:6:

“For we are confident of this very thing that He who has begun a good work in us shall perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.“

Now, that is a promise that we can hang onto. The Lord never promised us that we had to do it on our own, but what He did say is that we need to finish the race.

God bless you! Run your race. I am running with you!
Bye.