If your life is a race, what is the prize at the finish line that you are hoping to receive? What or who are your eyes fixed on that keeps you pushing through the weariness and challenges of your life race?

The writer of Hebrews uses racing terms to both point us toward Jesus and admonish us to run our race like he ran his.

and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,