{"id":1941,"date":"2008-08-12T08:54:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T13:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/?p=71"},"modified":"2008-08-12T08:54:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T13:54:50","slug":"working-hard-while-relaxed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/2008\/08\/12\/working-hard-while-relaxed\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Hard While Relaxed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This coming Sunday we continue our series on Running the Race of Faith by considering a paradox: When running a race all out, we must relax all muscles except those that are working hard.<\/p>\n<p>The video below is a great example of this. Jeremy Wariner, the favorite in the men&#8217;s 400 meters in Beijing, wins last year&#8217;s World Championships. Look especially at his face and neck in the head-on shot of the last 40 meters, which begins about 1 minute into the video. He is quite relaxed &#8211; yet he is running within a few 10ths of a second of the world record.<\/p>\n<p>Here are key verses to consider in drawing the parallel with the race of faith:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>NIV Hebrews 4:11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.<\/p>\n<p>ESV Matthew 11:28 <em>(When reading this, remember what a yoke is!)<\/em> Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ESV Colossians 1:29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OENJvMZqk3E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OENJvMZqk3E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This coming Sunday we continue our series on Running the Race of Faith by considering a paradox: When running a race all out, we must relax all muscles except those&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,25],"tags":[719,1277,1310,1511,1666],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-the-race-of-faith","tag-hebrews-411","tag-race-of-faith","tag-relax","tag-strive","tag-wariner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}