“I do everything for the gospel, to be a collaborator of it. Don’t you know that those who run in the stadium all run, but only one wins the prize?They run for them to reach him. Every sportsman masters everything; these, to obtain a corruptible crown; we, however, the incorruptible, so I also run, not without purpose, so I fight, not like hitting the air, but I hit my body and enslaved it, so that having preached to others, I would not be disqualified. (1C 9. 23-27)
Faith in Christ is persecution, struggle, career! It is a path full of difficulties, but in the finish line there is an enduring reward given to those who persevere in the race of faith: Christ himself.