The Relay Race

A song kept resonating in my mind, “My greatest fear is regret, my greatest fear is walking in bitterness.” I began to pray and ask the Father what was going on when I had a vision of a relay race. The Father said, “This is the race of my kingdom.”

If we don’t understand the kind of race we are running we will run the wrong race and be disqualified. Many in the church are running a sprint rather than a relay. They ran fast and hard, left their opponents in the dust, but when the time came to pass the baton to the next generation they had nothing to give and the next generation had to go back to the beginning. Then I saw a runner with a baton about to pass the baton to the next generation, but when the next runner saw him coming he was threatened and began to run away from him. Once again the race was lost.

We must understand that in the race of the kingdom we do not run the race for ourselves but for others. We are not in competition with one another but rather we are working for one another and for the generations to come. If we do not understand the importance of the baton we will run largely in vain and suffer regret for what was lost.