You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth? Galatians 5:7
Did you ever know anybody who was running a race and just sat down on the side of the track and never got back in the race? Did you ever see a football player just sit down in the middle of the field and forget about the game? Did you ever see a Christian who was running the race for Jesus, just decide one day that he was ready to drop out of the Christian race and forget the whole plan to get to the end of the race and see Jesus face to face?
I have seen it happen in races before. A racer is putting it all on the line to win and someone cuts in on him and he either trips and falls or he gets diverted or discouraged and slows down. The race is lost and he goes down as a loser.
I have seen it in the Christian life. A runner gets a good start at his baptism. He reads the Bible and prays every day. He brings family and friends to worship and several are baptized. Something occurs and he gets cut in on and he falls back and drifts back into the old way of life. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires. (Ephesians 4:22)
The race goes on and this discouraged racer drops farther and farther back and in the end he sits at home on Sunday night and before long he sits at home on Sunday morning. Everyone wonders at the change in his life at the beginning and now they are wondering at the change of his life now.
Paul has a word for the Galatians and for us today: You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth?