The Run of Ahimaaz

 Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi. 

2 Samuel 18:23

"RUNNING is not everything, there is much in the way which we select: a swift foot over hill and down dale will not keep pace with a slower traveller upon level ground. 

Q: How is it with my spiritual journey, am I labouring up the hill of my own works and down into the ravines of my own humiliations and resolutions, or do I run by the plain way of Believe and live? 

The soul runs without weariness, 

and walks without fainting, 

in the way of believing. 

Christ Jesus is the way of life, and He is a plain way, a pleasant way,

a way suitable for the tottering feet and feeble knees of trembling sinners: I read of the way of holiness, that the wayfaring man, though a fool, shall not err therein: 

In reading this passage, it strikes me that if men vie with each other in common matters, and one outruns the other, I ought to be in solemn earnestness so to run that I may obtain. 

Lord, help me to gird up the loins of my mind, and may I press forward towards the mark for the prize of my high calling of God in Christ Jesus." 

Charles Spurgeon