100meter dash!

With Yeukai Musara

Being a former 100meters athlete l remember having to stand on the starting line and zone out everyone who is around me in order to concentrate and try and view the distance.
When the starter calls upon competitors, “On your marks!” with a thundering voice we are prepared to be on our marks position, as he has directed for us to go and when he shouts, “set!” we automatically have to count three seconds before the gun rings to set us off. Awww you know the drill right!
In this race there are different things that can happen; one can make a false start and automatically you are disqualified and you are out of the race and you won’t race again.
Another thing that can happen; one can miss the starting gun and you will be left behind on the starting line while others have gone and you will have a slow start and you have to catch up with the others.
The other thing maybe you have started the race but you face a hamstring injury along the way and you are not able to finish the race. You will be forced out of the race.
Lastly you may be able to start the race well, end well smoothly without any hiccups or any injury along the way.
This is the 100meter dash so anything can happen to anyone at any time.
The point that I’m trying to bring out is that we as Christians are running a race and we are doing it differently.
Some have had false starts and they end up being automatically disqualified from the race before it has even started because of the things that they have or wrong decisions that they may have made with their lives.
Some are slow on takeoff and are left behind after the race had begun because of the shortness of timing as well as grasping the word of God in its fullness and in what you should do about it as well as consider it.
Some develop hamstrings along the way; they will have received the word but will not have grasped it well and mentally and the devil will come and destroy them or disturb them along the way and they are forced out of the race.
Finally one begins the race well and ends well and has a world record or beats the clock .This is the Christian who will have received the word, grasped the word, meditated on the word and used it to its fullness and he or she has reached the finish line.
Basically what l am trying to say or bring out is that we are all in a race with our lives and Christian lives and what needs to be done is to try and move in our Christian walk.
According to 2Timothy 4:7 which the Apostle Paul says, “I have fought a good fight, l have finished my course, l have kept the faith.”
Paul says he has finished the race so as Christians let us strive to finish the race so that when our Lord Jesus comes we know that we will have accomplished it and will have finished it well without any issues.
Philippians 3v14 He goes on to say “l press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
As we race and press towards the mark of our high calling we need to continue to pursue the rightful ways of living as well as do it prayerfully in order for us to get there.
This journey can be difficult just like the 100 meter dash but we can only overcome it by prayer and supplication.
We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us according to the book of Philippians 4:13.
Let us continue to pursue our ways and we will be able to achieve what we desire from God.