Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NLT) Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. This life of faith is likened to a race. Hebrews 12:1 (KJV) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, This race is an endurance race…not a sprint! There are obstacles in a race 2 Timothy 4:7 (NKJV) I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.