Daily Devotion - Take Off that Overcoat! Take Off that Overcoat! Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-2 Scripture: Hebrews 12:1 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, If you’re going to run a race, how do you prepare yourself? First, you’ve got to lay the weights aside. Notice athletes. They run in very light clothing. The less weight, the better. One thing you’ll never see is someone in the Olympics, running in an overcoat. It’s not going to happen. They get as light as they possibly can. You have to lay aside every weight. The Greek word weight does not mean something that’s sinful. It just means something that burdens you, something that holds you down. There are some things that are not bad in themselves. Nothing wrong with an overcoat. You just don’t wear an overcoat when you’re running a race. Paul said: “All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient” (1 Corinthians 6:12). Friend, it may be some recreational habit you have. It may be some cottage in the woods. It may be some acquaintance, some hobby, too much television or sleep. Whatever your baggage is, Paul is saying, “Something may be lawful for me, but if it’s not expedient, if it doesn’t speed me on my course, then I need to leave it alone.” Ask yourself, “Is there something in my life that’s hindering my walk with Christ? Something that’s holding me back? Is there something that is excess baggage? Something keeping me from being all I ought to be for the Lord Jesus Christ? Whatever it is, if you want to win the race, lay it aside. Good things become bad things when they keep you from the best things. Paul also said, “Let not then your good be evil spoken of:… “(Romans 14:16). Church, today we need to take an honest look through the eyes of the Holy Spirit and see what our Lord is telling us that is hindering the race for the lost soul we are in. Let us remember that if we are being disobedient to our Lord in the thing we are spending our time with, we will soon stop running at all. Church do we want to be found unfruitful and unfaithful to the one who took off His overcoat for us? For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? Let us take off the overcoat Church, and let it begin with me, O Lord. God Bless You Today.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:43:12 +0000
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