January 30: Hosea 6:3; Luke 9:23; Luke 14:33; Romans 13:12; 1 Corinthians 9:25; 1 Corinthians 9:27; Philippians 3:13–14; Hebrews 12:1–2; Psalm 119:67; Psalm 119:71; Proverbs 22:6; Jeremiah 29:11; Lamentations 3:27; Hebrews 12:9–10; 1 Peter 5:6 - a podcast by Crossway

Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith.

“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”—“So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.”—So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.—Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.—“Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord.”

Hosea 6:3 (Listen)

3   Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD;
    his going out is sure as the dawn;
  he will come to us as the showers,
    as the spring rains that water the earth.”

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Luke 9:23 (Listen)

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus

23 And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

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Luke 14:33 (Listen)

33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

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Romans 13:12 (Listen)

12 The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

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1 Corinthians 9:25 (Listen)

25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

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1 Corinthians 9:27 (Listen)

27 But I discipline my body and keep it under control,¹ lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

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Philippians 3:13–14 (Listen)

13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

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Hebrews 12:1–2 (Listen)

Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith

12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

We have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word…. It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”—Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you.

Psalm 119:67 (Listen)

67   Before I was afflicted I went astray,
    but now I keep your word.

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Psalm 119:71 (Listen)

71   It is good for me that I was afflicted,
    that I might learn your statutes.

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Proverbs 22:6 (Listen)

6   Train up a child in the way he should go;
    even when he is old he will not depart from it.

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Jeremiah 29:11 (Listen)

11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare¹ and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

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Lamentations 3:27 (Listen)

27   It is good for a man that he bear
    the yoke in his youth.

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Hebrews 12:9–10 (Listen)

9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.

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1 Peter 5:6 (Listen)

6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,

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