“Let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” Run with patience! This means constant energy, continual progress— “not as though I had already attained!” —not a pausing in the career of the Christian life, as if the race were over and the goal won. What a heart-searching exhortation lies in these words— “run with patience”! There is full energy on the one hand, and the ballast of faithful steadiness on the other. There is but one way to reach to such a state, and that is having the heart full of the object to be gained—Christ Himself. Having the soul filled with Him gives both the energy and the stay we need.