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Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Devotional: October 23rd

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Hebrews 11:32-40; ; Hebrews 12:1-3

From v. 32, we are in the land of Canaan. We find there the judges, the kings, the prophets, the great cloud of witnesses who surround us, who have gone before us and who wait for us to be able to enter into the possession of the promises (vv. 39, 40). Through the darkest times, the torch of faith handed on from one to another, has never gone out. God alone knows the list of these forgotten martyrs and He keeps it up to date. Each has his own page in the book of faithfulness. The army of the torch-bearers of faith has a wonderful Captain — we are the rearguard. Today it is our turn to be engaged in this "relay race". What must we do to run well? We must be neither burdened down nor become ensnared. Let us start by getting rid of every weight and useless baggage. Let us also lay aside sin, the net which sadly makes us stumble "so easily"! But this is not all. We need an object who, like an irresistible magnet, will draw us on. Let us fix our eyes upon the Lord Jesus, the Guide and Example of the life of faith, its Author and Finisher. He too had an object before Him, more powerful than the cross, the shame and all the suffering. It was "the fulness of joy" which must crown the life of the man of faith according to Psalms 16:11.

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