{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/64693f147973b50010a6878a/68980efdc6d7c56cdafd5f3e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode #105 - The Race is On (Phil 3:14)","description":"<p>I don't want to walk with God anymore.</p><p>There. I said it. </p><p>I'm just kinda fed up with the whole thing. I've been doing it for years and I've just had enough. It was fine for a while, but, to be perfectly honest, I just feel like I've outgrown that stage in my life and I'm ready for something else. So I decided to come on this podcast and make a public announcement: I really don't want to walk with God anymore.</p><p><br></p><p>... I want to RUN. </p><p>Walking is for newbies and slowpokes. I want to pick up the pace and kick it into high gear. I want to stop strolling and start sprinting. I want to snuff out \"This little light of mine\" and replace it with a raging, dangerous, pyroclastic wildfire. I don't want a casual relationship with the Savior; I want intense blazing intimacy. What I'm trying to say is, I'm hungry for MORE: More light, more heat, more holiness, more boldness, more love. More JESUS. </p><p>I don't want an easy, safe, meandering kind of faith -- a casual stroll in the park kind of faith. I want a tightrope-over-Chicago-with-no-net kind of faith. A lactic-acid-all-over-the-next-morning kind of faith. I want to sprint to the end, I want to finish hard, I want to cast off every hindrance and the sin that so easily entangles and run the race set out for me. I want to press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.</p><p>No more walking for me.</p><p>I want to RUN.</p><p><br></p><p>\"One thing I do: Forgetting what is behind&nbsp;and straining toward what is ahead,&nbsp;I press on&nbsp;toward the goal to win the prize&nbsp;for which God has called&nbsp;me heavenward in Christ Jesus.\" </p><p>(Philippians 3:13-14)</p>","author_name":"Kevin Mote"}