Christian walk?

I wonder who came up with that phrase.

The Christian walk.

I understand the premise of it and the idea behind it, but walking with Christ isn't good enough.

We need to run.

As for a lot of things that float around in my head I was reminded of this by a song. Run by Lecrae. It's not the greatest song, but it's got good lyrics.

Over the summer a friend of mine shared with me 1 Corinthians 9:24-27. I've heard it before, but he really helped open my eyes to what it meant.

This life is a race, and we are all pursuing the prize, Jesus, but people don't just run, they have to prepare themselves and train and build endurance. When we finally do enter the race we don't sprint then stop and rest. We don't walk. We don't cheat, and get disqualified. We run with everything we have.

That's one of the biggest problems with the church in America.

Too many people are just walking.
Myself included. God has been convicting me of this.

We need to pursue after Christ with everything we have, but at the same time pace ourselves and know our limits. We can't try to change the world all the time.

1 Corinthians isn't the only place where this race metaphor is used.

Jeremiah 12:5
Acts 20:22-24
Galatians 2:2
Galatians 5:7-9
2 Timothy 4:6-8

The main reason why I decided to write about this today was to remind myself, and hopefully people will keep me accountable.

"I want to cross the finish line of life throwing up all over myself."-Justin McRoberts

Because of his grace and for his glory