Analogy-One Step at a Time

I got up late this morning and was really debating with myself whether or not I was going to run, but if there is one thing I have learned while training for this marathon is your mind must tell your body to keep going even when your body wants to stop…so I could find no logical reason not to run this morning…so I ran. The first part of my run is mostly uphill…some hills are smaller than others, but it is generally uphill…I was looking right in front of me and just telling myself to take one more step…then one more step…made it through all the hills and as I was coming around the corner by Rampart where you can see the expanse of the mountains the song “God of this City” started playing…Yes… you are God of this City and you are going to do amazing things, as we take one step at a time! Then I continued running…looking way ahead of myself I started running with all the confidence in the world, as I was now going to be on level ground or even some downhill, but then God brought an analogy to mind and that was that so many times in our lives we call on Him when life is hard and we can barely take one step forward, but then when things are going good, we go about life thinking we have this well under control…He wants to guide our every step the easy ones and the hard runs…so for the remainder of the run, I ran looking just one step in front of me and I had the best run yet since I started my training...in fact I even beat my yesterday’s record…my new pace is not 11.33, but 11.14-Thank you Jesus for reminding me to allow you to guide every step in my life!