Tomorrow would be my first Standar Chartered run. I participated in 10 km and so there are no pacers to follow on the day. But thank God for He granted me a friend who becomes the pacer in my training. Yesterday was my third session with him.
Now I understand better on how important the role of the pacer is. Without him, I may tend to run faster in the beginning. He reminded me that the run is still far and therefore to keep the pace reasonable. As the minutes go by, my distance with him keeps increasing. This means that I started to lose out the excitement, in other word, things get tougher. Having a pacer is helpful for me to focus to just follow Him, in fact no need to look far, just try that we keep the same distance as the Pacer. And during our last lap, he usually speeds up to give all he has, and so I also learn to create second wind. Last time I thought second wind is automatic. Apparently it is not, it is when we feel weak but we have the faith that we can do more than that. And so the second wind is created. There is usually no third win. So the moment we slow down during second wind - I experienced it due to the temptation to slow down as there are few people in front; we kind of lose it and it is hard to maintain the pace.
How about my usual life? Do I make Jesus to be my pacer? Do I fix my eyes upon Him so that the things of earth will grow strangely dim? As I reflected my journey of up and down, one thing becomes clear, I need a pacer of my emotion too which means I need to follow the pacer and not my emotion And that pacer is Jesus.
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