“LIFE IS A MARATHON “ (archived)
By: Rev. Philip K. Cooper, September 2006

Sitting in church on Sunday morning, God gave me three words, “Who are we?”

So I prayed, O God, who are we that You should consider us? (Psalm 5:1; 9:13; 31:7)

Father God, who are we that You should send your son to hang on a cross for us? (Acts 5:30; Galatians 3:13)

O Lord, who are we that You would love us and have compassion upon us? (Matthew 9:36 & 15 other places in NT)

Almighty, Master of everything, who are we that You would prepare a place called earth that we might have life and sustenance and know that You have made everything, and nothing was made that You did not make (Jeremiah 32:17).

O Yeshua, Jesus who are we that You would go before us to prepare a place in heaven for we who believe you are The Son of God? (John 14:2,43)

Who are we but filthy sinners for whom you give the opportunity to become washed in Your blood that our sins would be forgiven? (I Peter 1:19)

Who are we but disobedient children who should have or mouths washed out with soap, and our bodies beaten for our sinfulness? (Titus 3:3)

Who are we but lost sheep for whom in Your exceeding love You chose to leave heaven to seek and to find us? (Luke 15:4,6)

And we ask who are we that You would touch us with Your hand and with Your stripes that we might be healed? (Isaiah 53:5)

O my God, who are we but piles of dust that You would let us live, breathing into us the breath of life,
lest we die? (Genesis 2:7; Ezekiel 37:5)

Father, we answer that we are who would give You glory and praise and honor and worship. (I Chronicles 16:29; Revelation 14:7)

We acknowledge that we are who love You God with all our heart, with all our soul, all our might, all our mind and all our strength. (Deuteronomy 6:5; Matthew 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27)

We are who thank You from our heart that You trusted us to serve You as we serve the “least” (neediest) of Your children. (Matthew 25:35-40)

I pray that each of us would ask ourselves who are we in Christ today!