1 Corinthians 9:25-27 (NIV) 25 Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. 26 Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. 27 No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.”
How would you define what that prize is? Perhaps this lengthy question will help. I believe you can read a transcript of this podcast on the Spotify page below the recording if you’d like to review it. Even so, let me read it twice.
What purpose for your life do you believe would be so personally meaningful, so worthwhile, so profoundly joyful to be living it day by day, that you would welcome life’s sufferings, evils, personal challenges, frustrations, and difficulties, as opportunities to expose and eradicate attitudes and reactions in you that stand to interfere with fulfilling that purpose?

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