Keep Running

My great-grandparents: William Clayton and Mentie Cox Watson
pictured with 10 of their 12 children and a relative, Emma Hamilton
1909

"Do you see what this means...all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running, and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who began and finished this race we're in. Study how He did it. Because he never lost sight of where He was headed - that exhilarating finish in and with God - He could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now He's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourself flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility He plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!" (Hebrews 12:1-3 The Message)

I found treasure hidden in my attic last week - a Watson history book written in the 1980s with family stories recorded back as far as 1740 when Watsons immigrated to the United States from Wales and Berwick, Scotland. The author, Shirley Watson Bain, wrote, "I have not found any royal blood, nor have I found any sorry people. The majority of them are just good, hard-working, and God-fearing people."

Someday, the readers and writer of this little blog will be history. Will those who come behind us find us good, hard-working, and God-fearing people?

Keep running, beloved! Don't quit! Set your eyes on Jesus and the exhilarating finish line with God!