"For me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." Philippians 1:21. This is one verse that I wish I could live up to. To be able to love my God so much that it would be a hard decision whether or not I would want to live or die would be amazing. The need to fill the hole in our souls can only be satisfied by Christ, and even though most of us know that, we still choose to keep him away. The only way we can get to know him better is to spend time with him both in our prayer and in spending time with His Word in our hands.
The best thing about distance running is definitely the fact that it parallels so closely to our walk with Christ. Because it's all perseverance and hard work, we can learn lessons about our Christian walks that also require a lost of perseverance. I hate when people try to explain Christianity like it's supposed to be easy. As I've grown, I've realized that people don't fully explain what the commitment to Christianity is supposed to look like. It's like going to a race in XC without practice and expecting to win. Christianity is SUPPOSED to be hard. It's not just, "You say this prayer, God saves you, and then you go to heaven." You have to believe in your heart, and it should change who you are and how you act. We have to at least give people to ability to know that they will have to work hard to get the kind of relationship they need to have with the God of the Universe.
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