Chasing on to the Finish

Chasing on to the Finish
Philippians 3.12-16

The athletics match had reached a critical stage. One of the final races was left to be run: the 440 yards (the old version of today’s 400 metres). The athletes were bunched together as they came to the first bend, and one of them was pushed over and fell right off the track. Quick as a flash he was back on his feet, and, as though electrically charged by the incident, caught the other runners with a few paces to go and overtook them to win on the line. It was a famous victory, which features now in the movie Chariots of Fire...

Taken from Paul for Everyone – The Prison Letters by Tom Wright