I love running! I always have. When I was growing up, I didn't excel at too many things, especially in the area of sports, but I found early on that I could move, and I did better than some. In the past few years, I have started running at some 5k events. I don’t always get a ribbon and, at my age, I’m not as speedy as I was in my youth, but I survive . Later today I’ll be running a 5k. I've had a sore muscle in my leg that has kept me from running too much this summer. So as I run today, my goal is to complete the event without my leg giving me pain. As I was thinking about this, I was reminded that, as Christians, we are all involved in another spiritual race. In our spiritual race, the only vital thing is that we finish. I doubt God is going to say “You were first; you were second; and so on”. His only desire is that we complete the Christian life we started. He doesn't want us to stop running just becau...