The Extra Mile

This following article is dedicated to a friend called Matt and a young boy Jack.

I just came back from a six mile Sport Relief Charity Race.
We had to run an one mile route like six times, and I must confess I found it boring but also challenging to keep up with how many laps you have done.
A mile is quite a distance for any runner, beginner or elite. Depending when you do it? A quick mile is sometimes easy, at the beginning of your training session act as a warm up and with your 2 year old son it's a long and slow distance.

Well needless to say, but Matt and young Jack did an extra mile, finishing after us...

This makes me think of the extra mile some people will go.
Well, I'm talking about going the extra mile with something or someone.
Matthew 5:41 in the Bible says
'If someone forces you to go one mile, go two miles with him'
That means, if someone asks you to give them a helping hand, give them both!
Do the unexpected, buy the new neighbours pizza on their first night. Fill the tank up of the car you just borrowed. Help someone move house on your weekend off, or help someone paint their house after work. Act on something needed without being asked to do.
If their is something needed to be done at the office, 'Give them to me. I'll do it'
Go the extra mile.....
put in just a little extra effort............
provide just a little more service................
Hear this one, 'if you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do'
Successful people simply do more.
If you have a servant heart, to serve a person, leader or cause........it will always pay off.

BUT at the end of a run, and you haven't really bargained on it (you might still be far away from home) and you still need to run that distance.

To do the unexpected for someone or something, is going the extra mile!!