Live life in such a way as to have no regrets when you look back. Think now about what is worthwhile and what you will regret not doing if you don’t do it. You only get one pass at life, and it is so easy to procrastinate your years away and waste your opportunities to live purposefully. You want to be able to say what Paul says here: “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” Many people live life like those dressed up for a race; wearing the best runners with their competitor number on, but who don’t ever begin. The Christian life is like a race, not in the sense that it is competitive, but in the sense that it has a specific course and goal. There is a direction you must go, and, as every runner knows, momentum is everything. You need to keep a good rhythm and not stop for anything. We, of all Christians in the world, are well fed and richly equipped to run the course God has set for all people. It would be the greatest of all tragedies if, when the race is over, we will have failed to run the course. Paul is facing the end of his life knowing that he has run this race, not perfectly, but with all his effort, and he looks forward to being handed his participant’s medal. It is never too late to join the race. Everyone who runs the race, however late they joined and however far they run, will be included in the celebration at the end.
Commit yourself to God’s pathway for your life.
Read 2 Timothy 4
