Excuses

I have been training for a 10k race for two months.  The only problem is I have been doing this training only in my mind, which I don’t think really counts.  I started this training in January.  It took me the entire month to mentally prepare for my upcoming training season.  I was certain I’d be ready to increase my running in the month of February.  But then I got sick for a few weeks and had to take some time off.  As soon as I felt better, I planned on getting right back to my training.  But then the crazy winter weather struck and my running path has been icy and snow covered for three straight weeks.  I would have trained between the snow storms, but as you can imagine, that would have been much too dangerous because I could have fallen and hurt myself.  None of this is my fault really.  There is just nothing I could do to change the situation…

What if we lived our life always making excuses? What if we only did what we wanted, and never took care of our responsibilities?   What if every time a situation came up where someone was in need, we just made an excuse and didn't help them?  2 Peter 1:5-8 tells us the following:

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge, and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and  to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.  For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

That is quite a list of qualities, but I certainly don’t want to be ineffective and unproductive, especially in my knowledge for Christ.  So I’m going to try to focus and make every effort to add those things to my faith.

 And about that 10k training…As soon as the road clears, I’ll be lacing up my tennis shoes!