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The Big Race

 Joining in
What is the race like?
Can I make it?
Does it really matter?


Getting Ready
Getting in Shape
Your Trainers
Distance Training
Course Overview

Crossing the Line
Readying the Mind
Mastering the Course
Deciding to Win

Running the Race
Off we go
Orientation

Starting off right
Four Hints 3
Qualifications 4
Singles
Healing
Decisions 7

Commitments
Following Up
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Big Events 13
Training 20

Running the Race

Finishing Well






    




  
What is more important in life? These will become the key testing points in the race ahead?
Qualified
What qualifies me to run?
Decisions What life events make me want to run?
Events
How have my past failures and victories shaped the way I will run this race?
Training What decisions have I made in my life that will ensure victory?
  
How well we do in the race depends on our commitment to win the race. But this general ambition is worked out in small steps of having the right priorities and keeping to them. The race is not seen so much in crossing the line but in the daily disciplines that we have set up. The crossing of the line celebrates the end to the rigorous disciplines. More will be said of disciplines later, but right now we just need to mention the tension that develops in life is dependent upon ones commitment to those priorities.

If we are only somewhat committed to those priorities, then at some point, our commitment will wane away, and we will end up falling from those priorities. At any point we break our sense of priorities, our lives will be shaken by a new set of priorities. This is where failure comes in – when we neglect what we ought. This is the importance of convictions and a regular renewal of these convictions from God's Word.


Sorting through Life's Priorities

Our priorities will be tested. Our goal is to make our commitment so true that our lives can take all sorts of attempted intrusions into the fabric of our lives.

  

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