God has not saved you to sit in the stands. God has not saved you to lie on the track. God has not saved you sit on the edge of the pool with your feet in the water. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 encourages us to be dedicated, be determined and to have deliberate action so we may run the race of life. Running in a way that glorifies God — that demonstrates that he is real and worthy and precious and powerful and pure and loving and gracious. We run the race of life so we may reveal who Christ is for us and who we are in him and how precious the prize of eternal life with him is to us.