A Capacity for More

I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart! —Psalm 119:32

At one period in my life, I had the goal to run a 10K. But in order to run a 10K, you have to start with a 5K. You’ve got to start down the block!

There was a point where I literally couldn’t run from one end of a block to the next. As I started training and developing the habit of running every day, I found that not only could I run a block, but I could run half a mile, and then a whole mile, and then a 5K. If you had asked me months earlier, “Kristie, do you want to run this 5K with me?” I would have said, “No! I cannot and I will not!”

But through the discipline of running daily, the Lord enlarged my physical heart to give me more capacity for running. I think that same analogy works in relation to the Bible: the more we spend time in God’s Word, the more we “run in the way of His commands.” He gives us capacity for more!