Only
One Receives The Prize
Do you not know that in a race the
runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that
you may win it. Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to
receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable one. So I do not run
aimlessly, nor do I box as though beating the air; but I punish my body and
enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.
1 Corinthians
9:24-27
Sometimes we contribute to our own demise
by taking things that are not important, and by focusing on things that are not
at all important. We drag luggage around with us throughout our whole lives,
and we don't need it. The luggage only drags us down. Evil thoughts hinder us.
Bad habits drag us down.
We should lay aside every weight that
ensnares us, because each weight is sin.
Keep out of your
life anything
that would crowd
Christ out of your heart.
Our
Daily Bread -