“Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.” (Philippians 2:12-16)
You see, perseverance and endurance are so important. And, again, the things that will bring us all the way down are the things around us, the crooked generation that we’re surrounded by, but we must run with that endurance so we will not run or we will not labor in vain. And that brings me to the question of how not to run. And where is actually the finish line and the destination? When the Bible tells us to run looking at Jesus, the author, and finisher of our faith, what is the destination? Because the Bible in Colossians 3 tells us that He’s seated at the right hand of the Father right now. That means He’s not here. He’s up there. That means the finish line for the believer is not here. It’s up there. When we reach His presence, when we make it to heaven, that is the finish line. And until then, we must run the race. Our destination is heaven. We are heaven-bound runners, and that is where we can say that we’re done. And, by the way, the finish line can either be if you die while you’re a believer and you’re going to heaven or if you are alive during the rapture and you will be there. But that’s the finish line.
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