 These are the athletic metaphors used in the Scripture. So if you're going to be a winner believer, if you're going to be a mature believer, if you're going to maximum glorify God, you have to have self-control and consistent training. Winning the prize is you or me becoming a mature believer and you and I giving maximum glorification to God. Paul wrote to Timothy while he was a young pastor in the city of Ephesus,