Running and Refusing Spiritual Burrito-ness

My mind has gone to this video lately as I have been preparing for a half marathon. It's an old video but lately I can't help but make connections between the physical act of running and running in a spiritual sense. Running to His word, making sure not to "miss the miracle". I get lazy and want to stay in bed, rolled up like a burrito. But once I get up and go for a run at the beach, I never once regret it. It's a beautiful sight, great feeling, and good company. Likewise, the missed experiences and beautiful encounters with God when I'm being a spiritual burrito.

"Our weak tired distracted eyes look and all we see is a lifeless boring portrait on the wall. But it's not a portrait. It's a window. It doesn't hang lifeless in an old frame on the wall. It breaks through the wall into another world. The real world, the lasting world, the better world. And through this window shines a divine light that changes everything around us. We all know that the road to knowing God is not easy. Discipline and resolve are important, but they can carry you only so far. A few days a week maybe a month. For the long run, we need something stronger, more compelling than discipline and resolve."

It's crazy to see the difference between running at the gym on a treadmill vs. running at the beach. I struggle so hard on the treadmill counting down the numbers till I hit my miles. I feel like a hamster! My motivation is bottomed out and I get bored. At the beach, I can run 4 miles like it's nothing. So what is the difference? I know my destination. It is not monotonous and aimless as running like a hamster, seeing the same scene of sweaty fellow hamsters. Likewise, Christian life is all about knowing our destination. The direction in which we run; the end point makes all the more of a difference. We have seasons in our lives where we are sprinting, jogging, and sometimes crawling. But our destination: eternal life with Christ, no pain, no struggling. We see it, and we are motivated to run to it.

Hebrews 12:1 
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, 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.