Run Your Entrepreneurial Race

We all know it - life business life easy.

Sometimes challenges can arise that are so difficult we may want to throw in the towel, call it quits, and go back to a cushy 9-5 lifestyle. Whether it's an overwhelming debt, the demands of an overbearing client, or the pressures of leading and growing a team, it can feel like it's just too much. When we find ourselves wanting to quit, the book of Hebrews gives us a powerful encouragement to hold onto:

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." (Hebrews 12:1 NIV)

“Witnesses” refer to believers who have gone before us, those whose lives are a testament of faithfulness to God. Hebrews 11 retells their old testament stories, and their continued presence in the New Testament reminds us that we're part of a larger story, a legacy of faith that spans generations.

This scripture also urges God-first entrepreneurs to "throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles." Hindrances in entrepreneurship may be easy to see, such as cheating a client or breaking industry laws that hold us back from fully running after God. They may also be internal, like greed, pride and envy. Whatever form they may come in, we Godpreneurs throw them off.

And yet, we don't just throw off things that entangle us and sit down. "...let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." The call is to keep moving forward in our calling in business, no matter how tough the journey may seem.

Guided by grace and fueled by faith, we press on for the Kingdom's sake.