So what I want to do this weekend is take the five different passages of the Bible that compare life to a race and compare becoming who God wants you to be to a race and draw out from them eight principles.  I call this the Marathon to Maturity.  This is how you get to where God wants you to be in life.  God doesn’t want you to stay the same.  He doesn’t want you to be in spiritual diapers your entire life.  He wants you to grow up.