Running toward the Prize

Published on Action-Faith, Boldness, Citizenship, Discipleship, Jesus Christ

Our lives are not about remaining static. Rather, our lives are all about running toward the prize for which God has called us.

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

From the perspective of discipleship, our lives are not about remaining static. Rather, our lives are all about running toward the prize for which God has called us.

In our own lives, change is required. We work to change from the person we used to be. We work to change into someone who is more like the person God calls us to be.

However, many people want to avoid change. For them, change is unwanted. It introduces unknowns and instabilities. It requires venturing out into uncertainty and learning new things.

In our own cultures, change is required. As citizens, we work to change the culture from what it used to be. We work to change it into a culture more like the Lord Jesus.

To make change requires faith. Change requires bold steps of action-faith.

We single-mindedly press on toward the future.

 

BIBLE VERSES

 

Deuteronomy 1:7. Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the places near there: in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

Psalm 27:4. One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, to see the LORD’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

1 Corinthians 9:24. 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. (NIV translation)

Philippians 3:13. Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Philippians 3:14. I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

 

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