Let us run with patience
Christianity is like a race, like those competitions that athletes do, they always fight to run that race well, to be in the first place and thus be able to win the final prize. Another thing that can be highlighted is that their eyes are always on the goal, they also eat very healthy and practice their whole lives to win. Beloved brothers, Christianity is the same, we run this race and we must do well because in the end a crown awaits us. The apostle Paul said:
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Paul sets an excellent example, a race in a stadium, several people running for the same prize, but only one can get the prize. The apostle tells us to run this race so that we can get the prize. Here we can make a stop at the phrase “in such a way”, it is as if Paul were saying: “Remember everything I have told you about Christianity, how to live it, then, live in that way, in order to obtain the crown of lifetime”.
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