Each of us have a race to run. Some have completed a major part of it and some may have just started. We are to run this race fixing our eyes on Jesus.
The important thing is not how we begin our lives, but how do we finish it. We may have a good testimony when we start our Christian life, but what is our condition now? Has our love for God grown cold? Are we like the church in Ephesus who left their first love?
“and this, not as we had expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.” This was the way that the Macedonian Christians made contributions.