“I will run the race set before me”
God has planted
a seed of desire within us to persevere in this life. He gave us short-term
goals to desire for and to work for as well as long-term goals. But how do we
consider which are short-term goals and long-term? On a short-term basis, we
count goals which are attainable within a short span of time like: winning a
game, graduating, career making, entering marriage, retiring from a job. Those
are considered as short-term goals if you view life as TEMPORARY. Winning a
game requires teamwork and sets of practice. Graduating from an educational
level requires years of study and research. Marriage starts after years of
deciding and choosing for a partner to spend the rest of our lives with. We may
wonder how these things can be considered as short-term attainable goals even
though it takes years of practice, study, and choosing options just to achieve
it.
It is because
the long-term goal that we are bound to attain takes a lifetime. It covers all
those short-term goals as basis for the final verdict of our Omnipotent Judge,
GOD. So do you know what that long-term goal is? It is our ETERNITY WITH GOD.
All the short-term goals are just tests for us on how we handle it; on what we
can learn about it and on how we are molded by God. He is preparing us for
something big. We might not know when or how Jesus would come back, but He is
giving us the idea of eternal happiness when we put Him and acknowledge Him as
the center of our lives while doing those short-term goals.
There may be
times when we feel weary after being bombarded with life’s obstacles. But those
obstacles are just the frightful things we see when we take our eyes off the
goal. God said in Jeremiah 12:5 “If you have raced men on foot and they have
worn you out, how can you compete with the horses? If you stumble in a safe
country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan
by: Kate Beltran
