 running to get that gold medal a thing that they have longed for their entire lives and here's what paul makes the case for and so do you that you have a responsibility to have self-control to be temperate to be serious about this journey that god has called us to this path that we are walking on you cannot do it haphazardly you cannot do it without seriousness you cannot do it in a lackadaisical way you've got to be serious and as he says and you must