Hebrews 12:1-2
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, …
I don’t know if you’ve stopped to think about it, but Christianity is an old institution. Take a moment to think of anything in your world more ancient than this faith that goes back beyond Abraham to the founding of the world itself. In all those plodding centuries and millennia, men and women have encountered and wrestled with God. Untold millions have been devastated, daunted, and eventually delighted by God.
In view of that cloud of witnesses, that matchless gallery of people so unlike and exactly alike you in heart and soul, run the race set before you. They had the same valleys and deeper ones to cross. They’ve had the same joys and fuller ones to enjoy. And each, without a single exception, wishes you to run on and run faster. Hear their cheers and see their smiles beckoning you on.
Prayer prompt: Lord, lift my eyes to see the endless examples of the joy You give your people.