However, John Piper points out:

This is the utterly unique thing about the way a Christian runner runs: we run not as though we see Jesus the judge at the end merely scrutinizing while we rely on ourselves for strength; but we run as those who have already been taken hold of by Jesus for the prize. We run to win the prize in the power of having been taken hold of for the prize.

It’s a strange race in that the longer you run, the stronger you get; because it isn’t you that’s getting strong after all. It’s letting God be your strength.

I need to read up on Jacobus Arminius and his work.

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