In ancient days, earlier an athlete began a race, he "girded upwards his loins," pulling upwards or removing his long robe together with thence his legs were gratis to run.
Peter uses this imagery inwards 1 Peter 1:13-16, stressing the importance of preparing our minds for spiritual "action." When runners educate for a marathon, they: 1. Eat foods that construct their bodies. 2. Run regularly, edifice their stamina together with speed. 3. Avoid situations causing injury. When nosotros travel our spiritual race, nosotros should: 1. "Eat" God's truth to possess wholesome thinking together with construct spiritual muscles (2 Peter 3:1-2; Hebrews 12:1). 2. Improve our prayer stamina (1 Peter 4:7). 3. Be warning to Satan's attempts to motility spiritual injury (1 Peter 5:8). "All athletes are disciplined inwards their training. They produce it to win a prize that volition fade away, only nosotros produce it for an eternal prize. So I travel alongside role inwards every step... I dependent plain my trunk similar an athlete, preparation it to produce what it should." 1 Corinthians 9:25-27 Are you lot preparation for the race? ------------------------
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