Training to Win the Race

I was reading in my devotional today and I was reminded that in the life of an athlete training is a necessary and on going process. When running a marathon you must train, not merely try hard if you want to be successful. This process is not only confined to athletes. This is a life long process for growth and for success in life. To receive a payoff there is a process. We must train to win.

There is an immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something. That is why when we come to hard things in life that are too big for us to accomplish on our own, if we are smart we will look to our Trainer for specific instruction in the process.

You can guess how much I like going to the gym. But I want the payoff, so I do it. By applying the same principal to other things that I have to process through lets me participate in the process and not sit on the sidelines as a victim. No one wants to apply hard work to things we don't like to do. We would rather be rescued out of the process, but that would defete the purpose. No one can do the work of training necessary for an athlete, except the athelet himself. I know the process bites, but I want the payoff. There is no payoff without the process.