Be Trained-Up and Race-Ready

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17 NIV

In an article titled, “ Amazing Camille Herron Breaks Men's Course Record at Texas Trail Festival Marathon ”published Monday, the following was reported: Ultrarunner Camille Herron added a new notch to her belt over the weekend, taking home the top prize in the Texas Trail Festival marathon in Spicewood, Texas, breaking the overall course record by nearly two minutes with her 3:49:47 victory. She also walked away with a pretty sweet longhorn-shaped birdhouse as a prize for her efforts. Herron says it had been a few years since she’d raced in Texas, and she decided to do the race on a whim. She posted on Instagram that it was a great course and good prep for the Western States Endurance Run at the end of the month, where she hopes to improve on last year’s eighth-place finish. The course, full of twisty trails, rocks, and roots, as well as short, steep climbs coupled with two longer hills, has “been known to make a tough guy whine,” according to the official race website. But the 41-year-old ultrarunning legend made quick work of it and finished with a smile on her face.

And you know, it’s only because Camille was trained up and race ready that she was able to enter and win such an arduous and difficult race “on a whim.” Similarly, it is absolutely imperative that every believer be spiritually trained up and race ready at all times too, knowing full well that the prompting of the Holy Spirit can spur us to change direction or to do something totally unplanned and maybe even hard and strenuous “on a whim.” Which is the very reason we must daily read, study and meditate on Scripture—taking in the God-breathed words that serve to thoroughly equip the servants of God for every good work. 

So make Bible study a priority my friend because we have work to do! Work that will get increasingly more difficult and dangerous as the end days draw closer. We must be trained up and race ready to go out into the missions field—to share the Good News and to fight the good fight… with joy in our hearts and smiles on our faces. 

Heavenly Father, thank you for the reminding us that we must  be spiritually trained and ready for battle at a moments notice. Fill us with an urgency to read the Word, to know the Word and to hide the Word in our hearts so that we will be thoroughly equipped for the battle that’s ahead of us Lord. It’s in your precious name we pray Jesus. Amen. 

Happy Running!