Okay, some of us have our favorite teams going into the NCAA Playoffs. But no team will make it to the Final Four or become 2014 National Champions if they do not think, eat, drink, sleep Bball from now until the end of the final game. Champions focus on, and saturate themselves with their goals and tasks and they listen to their coaches.
This is why some people are victorious against sin and others are not. The person who keeps his eye on Jesus and spends his energy following Christ will defeat his enemy. The one who expects to be crowned without competing will be defeated.
1 Corinthians 9:24-25
(24) Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
(25) And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
2 Timothy 4:7-8
(7) I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
(8) Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
James 1:12
(12) Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Revelation 3:11
(11) Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
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