A Spirit-Filled Marathon

Last Saturday (2 Dec 06), Dehua, Daisy and Jiayan was sharing excitedly about their preparation for the Standard Chartered Marathon run at the Hemisphere Cafe when suddendly, Dehua asked me whether I like to take part as his colleague went sailing & thus couldn't make it for the run. Hee..i responded by claiming that I will support them in spirit... (I didn't register for the run in the first place.)

Then Daisy cheekily replied : " You can support us further by looking after our bags on Sun morning!"

That's it! I have to run the race to salvage my pride...haha

Anyway I brought up this matter to God during Sat service. As Dehua's colleague had registered for the full marathon, I was praying how far can I run. I was deliberating that it would be sucidial to attempt the full marathon as I had not trained for it plus the fact that the longest distance that I have ever ran was 4.8KM. Yet somehow God resonated in my heart to attempt the full marathon...but being the faithless me, I rationalised with God that maybe I should attempt between 10 - 21 km at the end of the service. After all 21km is still a faith run for me...

Sun morning came, i ran with some brothers who was running the half marathon. As we started off at the gun-point, the host spotted my number tag and jokking announced to the crowd, " Hey, you are supposed to run the full marathon which started eariler!!" The brothers and the crowd bursted out in laughter!

Malu...haha I was telling God, this is the last straw! Since you showed yourself real thru Daisy and the Host, I will try to attempt the full marathon! God is faithful, I had 2 bledding toes due to abrasion and had muscle cramps but he substained me throughout the marathon. It was tempting at the 18km turn point whereby I have to make a decision to choose btw 21 or 42km but somehow I was led by the Holy Spirit to persevere on to complete the race for Him. As I ran through the finishing line ( I walked like the Penguins in "The Happy Feet" after the run), I felt a overwhelming sense of triumph in my heart.

Thank God. Thru this experience, I learned about this verse in Matthew 17:20. " I tell you the truth, you can say to the mountain. move from here to there and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." :)