“…and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus…”
Heb 12:1-2

The Bible likens our lives to a race. Following is a poem/song that expresses the same.

“Are you in the arena
Are you givin’ your all?
Are your eyes fixed on Jesus?
Have you answered His call?
Are you headed for heaven?
Are you runnin’ to win?
Have you laid aside weights?
And your besetting sin?

“I have fought a good fight. I’ve finished my race.
I have hung on to faith and I shall see His face.
I look for His coming, though all turn away.
My eyes are toward Jesus, toward Jesus today.

“The world e’er is calling
The sirens do cry,
Entanglements threaten
To obscure the eye.
But a highway’s been carved
Through this wilderness wild.
It’s a safe road of travel
For God’s trusting child.

“Yes, God wants a soldier
May no soft way enchain
To prevent you from rising
When He calleth your name.
To go forth in His service
Though with suffering and pain,
Nothing’s too dear for Jesus
Who for me once was slain.

“I have fought a good fight. I’ve finished my race.
I have hung on to faith and I shall see His face.
I look for His coming, though all turn away.
My eyes are toward Jesus, toward Jesus today.

“Now singing’s for victors
So sing out we must
For our Jesus has triumphed
In Him do we trust.
He’s marked out our course,
O’er our lives His cross reigns,
To win all we must lose all,
Faith, the victory obtains.

“I have fought a good fight. I’ve finished my race.
I have hung on to faith and I shall see His face.
I look for His coming, though all turn away.
My eyes are toward Jesus, toward Jesus today.”

R.H.