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The Race (this week's Sunday School Lesson :P)

It's easy to get tired of running the race. There's a lot of training and preparation that we don't want to do. There are obstacles that we don't want to go over. And sometimes the goal seems impossible to reach. But God offers strength, perseverance and endurance. He gives us everything that we need for us to do what He wants us to do. Although nothing I do can ever be enough to repay Him, I pray that when I see Him in heaven, He'll call me faithful.

Philippians 3:12-16
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. Only let us live up to what we have already attained.