Focus on the goal. How many of you when you run a race, you look back and say, "wow....did you see me in the beginning?" Did you see how good I started the race? NO! We don't saw that, we say, man that was a good finish or I am so proud of you for finishing! I know its not easy your chest was burning in pain, your legs felt like they where going to collapse but that didn't stop you!
There will be times you feel like you just cant do anymore, your focus on the goal gets dim. We need to refocus like a camera does every so often. No matter what the situation is, we need to keep pushing forward. Its not easy but that is what God expects of us. We run a race, not to finish first, but to finish! If you have stopped pressing toward the finish line....get back up, off your butt and start again!
NO PAIN... NO GAIN!
Philippians 3:12-19 (New Living Translation)
Pressing toward the Goal 12 I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. 13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it,[a] but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.
15 Let all who are spiritually mature agree on these things. If you disagree on some point, I believe God will make it plain to you. 16 But we must hold on to the progress we have already made.
17 Dear brothers and sisters, pattern your lives after mine, and learn from those who follow our example. 18 For I have told you often before, and I say it again with tears in my eyes, that there are many whose conduct shows they are really enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 They are headed for destruction. Their god is their appetite, they brag about shameful things, and they think only about this life here on earth.
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