Weary

 Weary

October 16, 2025

Hebrews 12:1-3

1Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

 

3 For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinnersagainst Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

We have been discussing spiritual warfare. Sometimes the battle is fierce, and the battle lines are clear, but other times the devil just wears you down with lots of mundane  troubles. There are aches and pains and little setbacks that tempt one to give up and grow weary and lose heart. We have three friends we are praying for right now that have great pain which the doctors have no answer for. Such things wear you down. The writer of Hebrews addresses this problem and encourages us to keep our eyes fixed a Jesus and remember the great cloud of witnesses who have gone before. They have endured greater pain than we have but they endured to the end. He says that Jesus endured the cross because of the joy set before him and now he sits at the right hand of the Father God to urge us on. He likens this life to a marathon race. Running the race involves pain and endurance but when you keep going there is a prize at the end. So don’t loose heart but fix your eyes on Jesus and keep battling The devil. Remember that in the end, we win!