Printable Karens Korner #5037

Today's entry in "365 Days of Prayer for Women" by Stephanie Sample made my think of the months of campaigning in Iowa and the caucus last night. Don't know if the writing is similar but the title caught my eye.

RUN TO WIN

"Do you not know that in a race
all the runners run,
only one gets the prize?
Run in such a way as to get the prize."

~ 1 Corinthians 9:24 NIV

"Lord, when I think of Jesus' incredible humility, how every moment in his life was one in which he could have easily 'won,' I can scarcely comprehend it. I like to win; I also like to be right. Will you help me to discern when these desires are appropriate, and when I need reigning in? When there is a prize worth having at stake---when you want me to run to win---please give me the strength, courage, and ambition to give it everything I've got to win the crown. And when the so-called prize comes at the expense of a relationship or when i simply doesn't matter, nudge me, Lord, to prefer the other person and slow it to a jog."

"Are we running to win the ultimate prize?"

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