Running the Race

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Many times, even throughout the Bible, our faith is described as a race, however it is so much more than that. What race or sport can you think of that the competitors are encouraged to help each other? Can you imagine during the Olympics 500m sprint, every time your competitor trips or stumbles, you stop to help them get up and catch their footing? On the other side, can you imagine playing football completely by yourself with no defense, no back up against a team that’s sole purpose is to see you fail? If you or someone you know has ever bet on a “sure thing” was it ever really guaranteed? Maybe it had a high chance of success but nothing in this life is truly guaranteed except for one undeniable truth: the truth that ultimately, God, the one true God, defeats Satan! Revelations 12:7-12 tells us, “And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, ‘Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.’.”


How will you proceed knowing how the competition ends?


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