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HE FINISHED 18TH, BUT WHAT A FINISH!
Neal Pollard
Neal Pollard
I had no idea who Clint Bowyer was. I do know enough about NASCAR to know that the Daytona 500 is perhaps the premier event of the whole sport. Yesterday's finish was supposedly the closest in the race's forty-nine-year history, with 1972 and 1978 close behind it. Adding to the excitement were all the wrecks (sort of what fighting is to hockey). None of the fracases was any more dramatic than the one at the very end of the race, which bedlam brings us back to Clint. In the mayhem and tangled metal, Bowyer's car flipped onto its top. Most amazing of all is that he skidded and scraped his way across the finish line in that position. By the time gravity helped him stop, he was back on his wills and the front half of his vehicle was in flames. He was able to walk away unharmed. His finish was as amazing to me as Harvick's win by a nose over Mark Martin. He was able to hang in there to the end and because of that he earned money and avoided a "did not finish" even if it was the hard way.
The spiritual race we are in is grueling and difficult. To say that it can leave everything upside down for us is not an exaggeration. Yet, the goal of the Christian race is to finish. Paul says it is to "finish the course" (2 Tim. 4:7). Some may reach the finish in a little better condition than others. There may be serious emotional scrapes, some spiritual dents incurred along the way, and some physical setbacks. No one will eke or squeak into heaven. Yet, there will be tests and challenges every lap of the narrow road. Those who successfully run it, though, will receive the ultimate reward and victory (2 Tim. 4:8). Keep in the race!
The spiritual race we are in is grueling and difficult. To say that it can leave everything upside down for us is not an exaggeration. Yet, the goal of the Christian race is to finish. Paul says it is to "finish the course" (2 Tim. 4:7). Some may reach the finish in a little better condition than others. There may be serious emotional scrapes, some spiritual dents incurred along the way, and some physical setbacks. No one will eke or squeak into heaven. Yet, there will be tests and challenges every lap of the narrow road. Those who successfully run it, though, will receive the ultimate reward and victory (2 Tim. 4:8). Keep in the race!
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