Focus all your energy in Winning the Race 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Living the Christian life demands all our energy. We can forget the past and strain to reach the goal because we know Christ promises eternity with him at the race’s end.

New International Version You will shine like the Stars in the Sky These scripture shows the world how you are a New Creation and how uplifted and edified we are and will continue to be if we continue to follow Jesus. 12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. 14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”  Then…