Five Minute Friday: Race

Feeling your heart race.
Watching clouds race across the sky.
Race for a cause (ie. Race for the Cure).
Rat race.
Race against time.

It’s amazing how many phrases in our language include the word race.  The world is always in a hurry, and the march of time is relentless.  Most days of the week, I am constantly on the go.  There are places to go, appointments to keep, details swirling in my mind, the crush of laundry, the pile of dishes, and I just want it to

STOP!

While important, all of those things are temporal and temporary. 

I need to remember that I’m really only running one race that is of eternal value. 

“And I do all things for the sake of the gospel, that I may become a fellow partaker of it.  Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize?  Run in such a way that you may win.”  (1 Corinthians 9:23-24, NASB)

…and what is the prize?

“I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 3:14, NASB)