Run the Race
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Perhaps my story sounds familiar to you: Christmas comes and Christmas goes, the New Year approaches and I am filled with an overwhelming desire to make a list of ‘things I am not currently doing but think I should be doing.’ In desperation, as midnight draws ever nearer on New Year’s Eve, I am compelled to sign up to actually do one of those ‘things I should be doing’ and as I wake, bleary-eyed on the first day of a New Year, I realise that today