Sometimes, life is almost like running a race. Waking up, rushing around, going to the things that have to be done that day. But what are we trying to achieve ultimately? What are we racing for? what is the point of the monotony? More precisely, what is the end goal of life?

There is a point to life. Sometimes it gets lots among the busy schedules, but there is a point – there is an end goal. Every life has a purpose. Every person has a unique lane to run on, but we are all in this race. The point of a race is to achieve something significate that has meaning. It is to achieve a goal. The motivation for running can be different for every person in the race, but they all want to achieve in the end.

The Bible tells us in multiple places that we – as Christ followers – are to run our race. We do not get to pick the race that is set before us, and we don’t get to pick the purpose of our life. our purpose is to run the race that was set before us by God to achieve the goal that he has set for us so that we can win the prize he has chosen. Consider this passage:

Notice Paul – under divine inspiration – writes that he is pressing toward the mark. That is the goal; the target to hit! He did not set this target, God did.

Philippians 3King James Version

¹³ Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

¹⁴ I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Here are some other scriptures to show how we are, in fact, in a race.

Hebrews 12 King James Version

1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

² Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

1 Corinthians 9King James Version

²⁴ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

²⁵ And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

²⁶ I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

²⁷ But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Philippians 2King James Version

¹⁶ Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

Galatians 2King James Version

2 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

² And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

I think it is clear we are to be racing. But what are we racing towards? What is the goal? These two passages should help make that clear.

Philippians 2King James Version

⁵ Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

⁶ Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

⁷ But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

⁸ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross

⁹ Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

¹⁰ That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

¹¹ And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Romans 8King James Version

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

²⁹ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

³⁰ Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Our goal in this life is to become like Christ. I high goal that really cannot come to completeness until we see him. That is what we should be striving for though. That should be our end goal because that is what God has predestined us for. To be conformed to the image of his son.

The point of life is to become like Christ in as many ways as possible.

S.T. 
I Thessalonians 5:24 
“Faithful is he…”