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The Race
20 x 30 Oils on Canvas
SOLD
by Laurie Pace
These contemporary horses were painted in about 2008. They were a full page ad in Western Art and they sold the day the magazine was released! I am thinking they may live in Oklahoma!
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"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." Heb 12:1-2 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016)
Our Race?
When you race, there are usually spectators, and for our race in life, and for what is written in the Old Testament, back then, it was the men and women of God whose faithful lives played out in the writings of that time. They survived unimaginable oppression and cruelty all through the Old Testament when the Israelites lost their way and often ended up in the control of other nations. (Sound familiar right now in our lifetime?) Many were commended by their faithfulness to God, our Father. Are we faithful and faith filled today? Our race is on right now. We stay the course through trials and often persecution by not only strangers but people we thought we could trust.
We must fix our eyes on Jesus... he sits on the right hand of the throne of God. Jesus finished his race for us and He should be the focus of our lives. We must avoid the obstacles before us and rid ourselves of every heavy burden we carry that gets in the way of our relationship with God. ANYTHING that would slow us down must be left right now. We must run this till the end when He calls us home. In Ephesians, Paul writes in Chapter 4:22-24 " to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness." Our attitudes, thoughts and habits can impede our progress in our race.
The “race” is the Christian life. Our lives are like a marathon, not a 20 yard dash or even a sprint, and we are called in to stay the course and remain faithful to the end. It is not even our course for our life, but God's course for our life. Through daily prayer, worship, and reading in His Word (the Bible), we have Him and His promise to walk every step with us. He will never leave us or forsake us ... not you or me. He will never give up, nor should we. Keep your eyes upon Him and upon Jesus. The Holy Spirit within you will fortify you.
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Laurie Pace - A Texas Artist
Laurie is an international artist, her paintings are collected in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, DuBai, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, St Thomas, Romania, Greece, Croatia, and Ecuador.
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