So in the midst of all this training and such for my triathlon (yes, the one that is in FIVE–yes FIVE–days) I have learned quite a bit. I have not been as intentional with my training these last couple of weeks and when I run and swim I can tell. I can feel the results of those less-than-stellar weeks.
So He set me to thinking… I don’t want my walk with the Lord to be like that… where I don’t have the finish line in mind. There were days over the last couple of weeks where I would not train… or where I would cut my training short for the day… simply because I wasn’t feeling up to it. I was focused on the present moment rather than focusing on the goal set before me that was ever-approaching.
So hmm.
I have been seeing and thinking on as of late the many people I know who would have said at one time, “I am a Christian,” who now deny Him or have given into wishy-washy foolishness or apathy. Or people who would still claim Him but their lives look, as the 116 Clique so aptly says, worthless. I pray and hope that I am never found to be among those numbers.
O how often I fall into short-sightedness though. How often I simply seek to get to the end of a shift at work or hurry the line at the register along so that we won’t be making guests wait for more than a few minutes. Focusing on the present moment alone rather than focusing on eternity and THEN focusing on the present moment in response to eternity. ”…Making the most of every opportunity” (Col. 4:5).
So I pray that (since I’ve caught the tri bug and I also desire to be a better steward of my body) I train well physically for the rest of my life. But more–SO MUCH MORE–I pray that I live with my heart set on the finish… eternity with my Jesus and all who are His. That I live in response to what He has set before me more and more every day.
May it indeed be so. Enshallah.
