It has been a great blessing to serve college athletes like Jeremiah Santiago, pictured with my son Edward, showing him how to run. Enjoy Jeremiah's post:
I recently been having dreams of me running, from running the rock in football or just running around as a little kid growing up. The dreams were not night terrors so I figured God was trying to tell me something. I immediately thought of Braveheartedgospel.com and how the Pastor was bringing a strong message of running from things that are not of God. I needed more so I searched scripture, and came across 1 Corinthians 9:24-25 (New Living Translation) “Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!â€
All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. When I read this it suddenly came to me I was running in my past and currently right now in college for a prize. Not for the right prize though. I was more focused on winning that earthly prize a college degree, high school football game, or even a measly childish game that means nothing.
No prizes mean anything if you’re not pursuing that eternal victory. We should also have the same mindset of athletes when it comes to training, but instead of working out physically we as Christians should be working out the spiritual. How can we win the eternal prize if Satan is throwing fiery darts at us and we do not have the right material to protect ourselves and fight back?
It is amazing that God has been showing me this in the last couple of weeks, that we need to RUN that I need to run, not for these earthly prizes but for that eternal prize in Christ Jesus our Lord. While you are running that race, place you hope in God and he will renew your strength.
Blessings, Jeremiah Santiago
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Mon, March 22, 2010