“Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but [only] one receives the prize? So run [your race] that you may lay hold [of the prize] and make it yours.”
1 Corinthians 9:24 (AMP).
We are made by God and for God. God has purposed our lives before we were conceived. The man without a purpose is like one driving without a destination. This life is a race and everyone is running in this race, whether you know it or not. God’s purpose for your life is spiritual, which means it will take a spiritual understanding of the Word of God to run this kind of race. No one is born as an accident; no matter the circumstances under which you were born, as far as God is concerned, there is no such thing as illegitimate children. Your life is already planned by God who created you before you were conceived and born (Jeremiah 1:5).
You came in the volume written concerning you; that is why you must intentionally run in such a way as to win the prize. Do not run or live like it does not matter. Your life and walk of faith requires discipline to do the Word and be yielded to the leading of the Spirit if you want to win. In 1 Corinthians 9:25, Paul said, “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” (KJV). To be temperate in all things means to exercise self-control, to play by the rules. If those who compete in athletics for “a corruptible crown” discipline themselves (e.g. diet, exercise) and run with purpose and definitiveness, how about us whose race is spiritual, and our crown, is incorruptible? Stay in your lane and run your race to win. Proverbs 4:18 says, “The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” You are the just make progress in Jesus name.
PRAYER / CONFESSION
Dear Father, I ask that you open my eyes to see the path you have mapped out for me to walk in it, so I do not break my rank in the name of the Lord Jesus. (Joel 2:7-8).
WISDOM NUGGET
“And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith” Hebrews 12:1-2 (NIV).