Purposefully Running

5 Days

Day 5

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Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels.

2 Timothy 2:22-23

This world begs us to take what it has to offer. Advertisements entice us to place our identity in how we look, the Internet leads us to late-night emptiness, and popular culture tells us that the more we have, the more we will enjoy life. Interestingly, the more we gain in these areas, the more broken relationships, shattered self-worth, and identity crises we seem to have.

There is a way out; you can’t run from something without running toward something else. Jesus doesn’t want our “put-together” mask; He wants to meet us as we are—He wants the real us. If we turn from the world, fleeing the passions that only rob us of true life, we’ll come face-to-face with a Savior who loves us regardless of our past. You have been given the choice: What are you going to run toward? Will you run toward Jesus?

Prayer

Father, give me the strength to turn away from my desires and run toward Jesus, in whom righteousness, faith, love, and peace are found.

Scripture References

24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,

25not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

And I tell you that you are Peter,

and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades

will not overcome it.

“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:

These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.

I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

22Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

23Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels.

21Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

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