LAY DOWN YOUR LOAD
If we must be ready to run the race, we must be ready to lay aside every weight or load we are carrying that will hinder our steps or weigh us down and make us run the race.
We have a long course to run and we cannot afford to carry any weight if we really are fixing our eyes for everlasting life.
For us to be able to run the race, we must let go and forsake everything that might want to slow down our step.
Do away with everything which wants to set us back because we have a long course to run and we cannot afford to carry weight.
each and every one of us have an infirmity or weakness which seems to be a weight to us which is able to hinder us and it is right that we know it, access it, and careful and unconscious lay it before the Lord or else we may never be able to run and obtain the prize.
It is necessary that we get to consciously know what that unnecessary load that we are carrying that is hindering our step by asking God to open our eyes and also ask for the grace to drop them because it is not easy to drop those load as we are human.
Those loads are the schemes the devil uses in making us stop the course of our running and if we don't stop to realize that we are not going far neither are we going to win the race we are in if we don't drop the weight we are carrying.
PHILIPPIANS 2:12-13
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
We need to be intentional if we must lay down every weight we are carrying because laying down our weight isn't a one day job, it is an everyday job which needs focus and perseverance.