 And let us run, run, run with patience the race that is set before us. There's an athletic metaphor. Let us run with patience. In other words, you're not going to get to be a spiritually mature individual overnight. It takes a little bit of time to study and grow and learn and apply. But the writer went on to say, looking unto Jesus, who is the author and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,