What is it that causes us as individuals to become complacent in our relationship with God? We begin to live as though we are fine exactly the way we are, and this comes from the deceiver who wants to convince us that we do not need God. As we look to Jesus, he empowers us to lay aside this and other wrong mindsets and take steps to follow him.

"Run to win." This is Paul's exhortation to the believers in Corinth, and it should resonate with us as well. While we should each pursue Jesus with everything in us, we also need to develop a vision of what it looks like to pursue him together as a community of believers.