In 2013, an 86-year-old adult woman named Joy Johnson, completed her twenty-fifth consecutive New York Marathon, together with died the next day. But hers was a long together with disciplined life.
Joy's daily routine leading upwards to the race included Bible report together with an 8-mile run.
Before her end race, she said, "I only praise the Lord I tin become out of bed each forenoon together with run."
Joy's fervor for racing is a expert model for the type of fervor nosotros should bring inwards our spiritual "race."
When his life came to a close, Paul set it this way: "I bring fought the expert fight, I bring finished the race, I bring kept the faith" (2 Timothy 4:7).
"Therefore, since nosotros are surrounded past times such a non bad cloud of witnesses, permit us throw off everything that hinders together with the sin that then easily entangles. And permit us piece of occupation amongst perseverance the race marked out for us." Hebrews 12:1
Amen!
source: NY Daily News
